Before you can use your Release 6.4, 6.5, or 7.0 databases with Rational Synergy Release 7.1, you must upgrade these databases. Moreover, before you upgrade these databases, you must have installed Rational Synergy Release 7.1.
This Information Center describes how to upgrade Rational Synergy 6.4, 6.5, or 7.0 base model databases: databases that have not been customized using a model install from a model database.
Databases customized using the Type Definition dialog box, or by modifying control files, and so on, are still considered base model databases. These databases must be upgraded using these procedures.
To upgrade model databases and databases that have been customized using a model install, contact IBM Rational Software Support.
If you followed the instructions in Creating a database server, your new server is empty and ready for use. To prepare your databases for upgrade, do one of the following steps for each database that you are upgrading:
If you used ccmdb backup or ccmdb pack to pack your database from the previous release, unpack it into this new server using Release 7.1:
> ccmdb unpack packfile /to unc_database_path [-s server]
If the pack file came from a UNIX server, you must use the -w option with ccmdb upgrade, as described in Upgrading base model databases to 7.1.
If you dumped the metadata for your database, and copied the file system portion manually as described in s_t_upw_upgrade_os_new_srv.html#wp1055510__wp1059798, you need to reconstruct the database in your new Release 7.1 server. The following example assumes that you used the tar utility to back up and copy the file system portions of your database:
> ccmdb load dumpfile /to unc_database_path [-s server] > cd database_path > ren db db.SAVE > "Program Files\IBM\Rational\Synergy\7.1\bin\util\bsdtar" xf backup_file > ren db db.old > ren db.SAVE db > copy db.old\MDL_INFO db
If the dump file came from a UNIX server, you must use the -w option with ccmdb upgrade, as described in Upgrading databases to Synergy Release 7.1.
You have completed the upgrade to your production database. To test the result, start a Rational Synergy session and perform a number of operations. This topic includes a short list of operations.
If the database was manually protected after the upgrade, you must unprotect it before you can start a session. To run your tests, unprotect the database and start up a session. Then, immediately protect the database again so that developers do not start to use the database until you have confirmed that it is working correctly. Repeat these steps each time you start a session for testing or for the post-upgrade actions described in Performing post-upgrade steps.
Start a Rational Synergy session on the upgraded database. On the Windows taskbar, click to display the Start Rational Synergy dialog box.
Test at least the following functionality in each upgraded database:
See " Considerations for upgrading to Synergy 7.1" on page 9 for detailed information about testing the upgrade.