Deploying Business Analytics Artifacts and Other Metadata
You deploy specific artifacts and metadata from a source Business Analytics Server to a target Business Analytics Server using the export and import commands.
Important: | You cannot use export and import commands when the Business Analytics version for the source and target Business Analytics Servers are different:  For major upgrades, use the migrate command instead. For minor upgrades, please contact Technical Support or your Software AG representative. |
In addition to the basic metadata for an artifact, a successful deployment must include related metadata, related files, extensions the artifact may use and any other artifacts that the artifact depends on.
The export and import commands automate deployment for most of this data, with some specific limitations that require manual deployment steps.
1. Export the specific artifacts that you want to deploy to another Business Analytics Server and any macros, pluggable views or pluggable libraries that they may use.
See the following topics for instructions using these Business Analytics export commands:
2. Copy the files for any extensions used by the exported artifacts from the MashZoneNG-config folder for the source Business Analytics Server to the MashZoneNG-config folder for the target Business Analytics Server. See for a list of potential file-based extensions.
3. Define datasources in the Admin Console for the target Business Analytics Server with matching names and JDBC drivers to the datasources in the source Business Analytics Server.
