Performing the upgrade

About this task

Two upgrade procedures are presented in this section.

You can have more than one installation, with the same or different versions, of Rational Synergy on a given machine, for client and engine software. Your existing Synergy databases reside on one or more servers.

On Windows, you cannot have more than one Rational Synergy Informix server per machine, even for different releases of Rational Synergy. Installing a Rational Synergy 7.1 server on a Windows machine upgrades any previously existing Rational Synergy servers. It also disables the use of those servers under the earlier releases.

As a result, there are two ways to upgrade your databases from earlier releases.
Perform one of the following steps:

OR

For each server, upgrade the databases on that server using one of these two procedures. You can use different procedures for different servers.

Upgrading an Existing Server" and "Upgrade to a New Server" are outlined in two different checklists in this section. The following paragraphs explain which checklist you need to follow.

Existing server upgrade

Use the procedures in Overview if:

Note: You receive some performance benefits if you choose to create an Informix database server. Your databases are unpacked, which causes the database indexes to be rebuilt and the data to be defragmented, This process improves performance.

New server upgrade

Use the procedures in Overview if:


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