OW Xe to 8.10 Upgrade

[bono2001]

Once you upgrade your DV or PY pathcode to 8.10. Is your deployment server for Xe unaccessible and all XE mods on hold until you finish all retrofits in DV/PY and are ready to upgrade PD? How do you deal with the down time to do the retrofits?
I would appreciate any insight.
THX Bono2001

 

[Alex_Pastuhov]

That's not really a "downtime", plus, even then there are other ways to handle it:
- Do all mods twice - in both XE and E810, or
- There're actually software tools to copy mods from release to release, making this halt in development optional or even obsolete

 

[altius]

Although the business data has been converted to E1 8.10 format, your Central Objects holding your XE code did not. You should be able to check out and in from a workstation when logged on to a different pathcode/environment than the one that was converted.

 

[jstooge]

The suggested upgrade method is to create a copy of an existing path code and environment(s) to upgrade. It is also suggested that if you are not going to install a new deployment server (preferred), you utilize multi-foundation in order to maintain your existing, as well as upgraded system.

Regards,

 

[DBohner-(db)]

Actually, the recommend upgrade path - should be...
* Create a new installation of 8.10 (different LPAR or system)
* Use third-party tool (boomerang or similar) to migrate modified objects
OR Use the Advanced ER Compare - to Migrate the modificatons from
Pre-8.x to 8.x
* Copy data to 8.x system and convert to Unicode

There's a lot of assumptions left out of my steps, but it's the safest
way to migrate and you can keep Pre/Post migration development active
through the life of the migration.

HTH

(db)

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[thejdofva]

Jim,

Is there a document out there that explains how to do multi foundation between the two diff versions (Xe and 8.10).

I have done it for the service pack but not sure about this one.

Javid