Exporting applications from Cognos TM1 Applications

You can export the basic definition of an application from IBM® Cognos® TM1® Applications 10.x to save a backup copy or to move the application to another instance of Cognos TM1 Applications. Exporting allows you to save a template of an application without any of the current user activity or state data. Only the structure and security definition of the application is exported. After you export, you can then import and reuse the application at a later point for something like a new budget planning period.

About this task

An archive is created and contains the XML files that describe the structure and security of your application.
Important: The export process does not preserve state data about the application such as current node ownership and submitted status. If you use the export/import process, this information is not preserved.
If you want to preserve state data about your applications, manually backup the files as described in Backing up your Cognos TM1 Applications data.

Procedure

  1. Open the TM1 Cognos Applications portal.
  2. Click the Export Application icon under the Actions column.
  3. From the File Download dialog box, click Save.
  4. Navigate to the directory to where you want to save the export file.
  5. Click Save.
Parent topic: Uninstalling and undeploying Cognos TM1 Applications