Service Pack jump

cncburnout

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I have a crazy question - we have an old version of JDE (SP7.1) running on a Windows SQL server, supporting around 50 people and for reasons that would take a book to explain, I cannot get them to convert to our existing AS400 XE version (SP18). Now they want to install the latest service pack (20) on the Windows server and jump from SP7.1 to SP20. My question is - has anyone installed a service pack that took their system from non-XE to Xe? If so, what, if any, were the problems that you saw? I understand that there will be a problem with the OMW tables, but I am wondering what other problems other companies have found.
 
Yes, I've done this a few times as there are major advantages with the
latest SP's. For some modules (ie Payroll) the SP jump also requires a
number of ESU's. These are usually listed on the Breaking news section of
the Knowledge Garden.

With the jde.ini I would use the one included with the SP and then add my
own changes, don't try and use your old jde.ini with the new Xe/ERP 8.0
SP's.

If you have server error logging turned on you'll get lots of messages about
tables that don't exist and huess what? They don't as they're Xe tables.
I've generated the tables and views but not all errors disappear.

I've only taken B733.1 and B733.2 up to SP 18.X......may want to check with
someone else out there before you go to SP 20. At FOCUS this year they
really hyoed this SP for all it can do and all the improvments in it -
translation: approach with caution.


Colin
 
Randy :

A single service Pack installation won't send you from B7331 to Xe.
(SP 7.1 was used in B7331). For example, if you install SP 19.1 on
B7331 you won't get OMW capabilities!
However, installing a Service Pack may give you some new fancy stuff
that Xe supports and B7331 SP 7.1 originally couldn't (such as UDB/2
or SQL2000 support).
I've installed SP 19.1 on a B7332 SP 11.3 installation and everything
went fine except for some reports whose Arial text was replaced by
Arial Bold (!).

Regards, Sebastian Sajaroff (JDELIST)
 
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