Rollback Package

[arny]

Hi All,

Can someone please suggest how to rollback deployed package?

Thanks,
Rohit
8.11Sp1,8.98.4.7, AS400

 

[AmarDeep]

Hi Rohit,

You can deploy full package which is, you used before deploying current package.

Thanks,
Amar

 

[AlexRO]

Deploy the previous full package. Then deploy the update packages until you reach the package you want to roll back.

 

[peterbruce]

Our change management protocols require that any change have a rollback ability if possible. To that that end I save all the changed objects in a Boomerang package or to a zip file using OMW's Save functionality.

However, if there has not been a rollback planned and prepared, the options are limited and convoluted.

Here are some options that may be available to you:

Is the client or server on which the package has been deployed been backed up? If so you may be able to restore a backup taken before the package was deployed. However there may be other changes that need to be re-done.

If you have the old specs for the objects in the package on a fat client (that has not been updated) you may be able to access and use them. If the fat client machine has been backed up and a backup is still available to be restored which contains the old specs, you could get it restored and use the old specs so obtained (remember other changes may need to be re-done):

Using an OMW Project, at the appropriate status, containing the objects:

Method 1) With later versions you can save the specs of an object as a zip file in OMW and restore from a zip file. On a fat client that has the old specs, in OMW save the specs for the objects in question to a zip file. Check out the objects. Restore the UBE from the zip file and check it in. (It may be possible to restore the UBE to a different pathcode than the one from which it was saved). (You can also copy the zip file and restore it to a different fat client). Then promote and/or build and deploy a package etc.


Method 2) In the database update the appropriate tables/columns to set the status of the objects in question as checked out to a fat client that has the correct specs. Log onto the fat client and in OMW, check the objects in.