Use FileNet® Deployment Manager to perform a change impact analysis operation, a pre-import analysis of exported objects that is intended for deployment to a destination environment. This operation is an information-only operation; it reads but does not modify the destination environment. For more information, see About change impact analysis.
To run this operation, you can use the FileNet Deployment Manager user interface, as described in the following section, or you can use the Validate operation in the command-line interface. For more information, see Deployment operation formats and Deployment command-line reference.
If the change impact analysis stops because of an unrecoverable error, the error is reported in the installation_directory/deployment.log file and in the console window of the user interface. Examples of unrecoverable errors include these examples: an I/O error that reads an export file, invalid XML syntax in a map file, or a connection problem to the destination environment.
To analyze objects for import: