Upgrading to a new release of Rational DOORS from a release before version 9.0

When you upgrade to a new release of Rational® DOORS® from a version earlier than 9.0, the previous version is retained on your system. Rational DOORS does not overwrite the previous version. You can migrate or restore data from the previous version so that the data is available in the new version.

Before you begin

About this task

This procedure provides information for upgrading from Rational DOORS version 6.0 SR1 or later. If you are using an earlier release, see upgrade documentation from previous releases.

On Windows systems, when you install Rational DOORS 9.0 or later, these defaults apply:

There are two methods for upgrading data to your new installation:
  • When you install the database server, point to existing data. If you want to preserve the existing Rational DOORS installation so that the data is available to existing clients, copy the data directory from the existing installation and point to the copy for the migration. If you do not want to migrate all the existing data, you can point to a copy of the data directory that contains only the items that you want to migrate. Then, use an upgraded client to migrate the data.
  • Restore data in the new installation from a project or module archive from a previous release. For more information, including the limitations of data archives, see Data backups and archives.

Procedure

  1. If you are upgrading to a new 64-bit client, uninstall your old 32-bit client using Windows Control Panel Programs and Features.
  2. Install a new version of release 9. For information about installing the client and database server, see:
  3. If you customized the menus in the previous installation, stop the database server, copy the addins.idx file and any custom scripts and folders from your backup files and add them to the new installation. Then, restart the database server.
  4. To migrate your data, do one of the following steps:
    • If you pointed to an existing data directory when you installed the database server, log in to the upgraded client as Administrator and accept the option to migrate the data to the new installation.
    • If you have archives from a previous release, restore the data in the new installation.

What to do next

After the upgrade of the database server is complete, other team members can upgrade their Rational DOORS client installation, as described in Installing the Rational DOORS client.

The Rational DOORS database server service is called DOORS DB Server 9.version. You can install multiple database server services on your computer. For more information, see Using the command line to install and remove Rational DOORS database server services.


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