Discoverer Report - Multiple instance migration

Hi
We are using Discoverer 4i reports. We are using 5 Test instances. Say
DEV,DEV1,CRP1,CRP2,CRP3.
We are doing development in DEV instance and we want to migrate the same report to DEV1 instance. We needs to recreate the same report in DEV1 Instance. It is time taking and double efforts need.
We have tried below ways, but we have failed in some cases
1. Taking *.dis file and save in different database
2. Taking the export of BA and import in another instances.
Is there any software available in the market to migrate discoverer report between instances. ( Ex like Kintana for Ebusiness suite migration).
It will be helpful for me, if you have any ideas/comments/suggestion to overthis instance report migration problem.
Thanks in advance.
Navas

Hey Navas.
This seems to be something many companies wrestle with. A recent client I was at had a similar situation but absolutely, didn't want any exports / imports of the BA and all had to be manually coded in each.
Reason for this was that you had to write up detailed explanations on what you did so it could be manually copied into PROD by the DBAs and therefore, no export / import (with the exception of you didn't recreate the file system saved report obviously).
Also, I can attest (and have commented on this before), Disco 4 has seemed 'challenged' to me in the past and an export / import from one v4 EUL to another v4 EUL sometimes doesn't work exactly the same (ie: a file system saved workbook in one EUL doesn't work in a newly exported / imported BA in the other EUL. With different EULs it appears that when people make changes to each, and delete their changes, it can cause problems (ie: ids being renamed to _1, etc.) which just makes life difficult.
This is why for non-PROD instances, more times than not you just refresh the entire EUL to either your PROD instance (and apply changes you're working on again) or harmonize all test instances.
Russ

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