Importing and exporting content

We can now look at adding content to our environment. Content maintenance is important for a number of reasons. In IBM Cognos BI, you can use the Content Administration section under the Configuration tab in Cognos Administration to manage this, as shown in the following screenshot:

There are only a few purposes of using the Content Administration option that make sense for a Cognos administrator:

• Exporting for backup purposes: The content in Cognos Connection can be exported periodically as a form of backing up your system. This allows complete content store recovery if your entire system were to ever become compromised.

• Exporting for deployment purposes: The content in Cognos Connection can also be exported for the sole purpose of moving it to another Cognos BI environment. This is often used for deploying content from a development environment to a production environment that is used by the external customers of stakeholders.

• Importing for deployment purposes...