As already mentioned a number of times in the forums, you can deploy paginated reports etc, BUT paginated report VISUALS do not automatically swap their connection during deployment with its paginate...
reiffaul
Advocate I
Advocate IHello Anonymous. Do you have any update on this issue? It looks like this has been out there for a while. This is desperately needed as paginated reports become more common. It's unfortunately not practical to deploy the paginated report to production ahead of the report that calls it. Please provide the timeframe for solution.