Upgrade BAM 11g to BAM 12c-Issues in BAM 12c

If you are working in a project where there is a requirement to upgrade BAM 11g artifacts to BAM 12c.

Be very careful while giving the estimates to client for the migration.

Make sure you know some facts on BAM 12c before you make any commitment or provide estimates.


1> Only data source and EMS can be migrated in BAM 12c

Oracle has published a very nice document on how to upgrade these artifacts

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bam/learnmore/bam11g-12cmigration-2389379.pdf


2> BAM reports is no longer existing in BAM 12c. We have a dashboard now.

So all the BAM reports now needs to be recreated in BAM dashboard.
This again involves a lot of steps as now we have Business query-->Business View and then dashboard.

3> ALerts can also be not migrated as alerts might have reference to BAM 11g report and now in BAM 12c we can send the BAM dashboard link.


4> Most important BAM 12c has lot of bugs

Batch parameter does not work

Null parameter can not be inserted in BAM

parameter does not show up in business query.

Further a lot of patch needs to be applied in the BAM 12c.

So make sure you are taking more than enough buffer time for the development.

BAM 12c needs to be more stabilized.