Rename users and transfer Discoverer reports

I hope someone can help. We are running Discoverer 10g with a database EUL. The reports have been operational for several years and users have edited and saved their own versions of standard reports. However it has been decided that a large number of these users (~100) should have their accounts renamed to bring them in line with other corporate usernames. User access to their reports needs to be preserved so that their new accounts look like their old (other than account name / password). These users are Viewer only users so they cannot share reports.
Does any one know of an alternative way of doing this other than the labour intensive way of: creating a new set of Discoverer users (in the new format), logging into each old account in Desktop and sharing all the reports to the equivalent new user. Then repeating this for all 100 users? Please help save my sanity.
I don't suppose that there is a simple solution of renaming Discoverer users.
But I am hoping that maybe the Desktop admin command line (which I am not very familar with) may be of some help.
Or possibly the more scary option of tinkering with the EUL tables on the EUL owning schema.
Any advise welcome.
Duncan

Hi,
There is no way to rename database users created with a CREATE USER command. You would have to use a database import and export and remap the schema. However, if you have if you have two database users, USERA and USERB where USERA is a Discoverer user who as saved Discoverer reports in the database, then you can move the reports from USERA to USERB by updating the EUL.
Assuming that USERB has not used Discoverer then only USERA will have a record in the EUL5_EUL_USERS table. You can update the table change EU_USERNAME from USERA to USERB so that USERB has a user record in the EUL. USERB will then have access to USERA's workbooks. The workbooks are all held in the EUL5_DOCUMENTS table, the owner of the workbook is found using a lookup in EUL5_EUL_USERS table.
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