System Upgrade

[Rick Kennett]

Howdy All,

My client is running Universe - 6.3.4.1 on an RS6000 with AIX at 3.1
Pretty far behind eh? In any event we are preparing to upgrade to the
latest version of AIX and Universe. I have gotten conflicting reports in
terms of the upgrade process. Ardent describes a rather laborious
process that includes resizing every file before and recompiling every
program afterward. Our VAR has said this is overkill and is not
necessary. Me... I'm confused. There is a big... huge difference in the
amount of work. I want to be cautious but I also would like a shot of
getting it done.

Is there any reason why I would be receiving conflicting instructions?
Would it have anything to do with the type or amount of data being
stored? And if that isn't enough are there any hidden dangers one who
hasn't done an upgrade in so long might want to look out for.

Thanks

Rick

[Clif Oliver]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:11:49 -0400, Rick Kennett <ri...@guildweb.com>
wrote:

>terms of the upgrade process. Ardent describes a rather laborious
>process that includes resizing every file before and recompiling every
>program afterward. Our VAR has said this is overkill and is not
>necessary. Me... I'm confused. There is a big... huge difference in the
>amount of work. I want to be cautious but I also would like a shot of
>getting it done.

Your VAR is wrong. Jumping from rev 6 to rev 9 is a non-trivial
upgrade. There are differences in the way Universe files are
structured internally, and there are backward link issues that will
result in "broken" files once you load the data on rev 9. Cleaning up
that before hand is what the resizing thing is all about.

If you just load your rev 6 data onto rev 9 without going through the
steps Ardent recommends, you *might* get away with it. But I wouldn't
bet *my* contract on it! <grin>

Regards,

Clif

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