We upgraded from 6.3 p20 to 7.1 p4 on Solaris with no problems. On Solaris you will need to upgrade your OS to Solaris 9 or 10. Also bump up to Oracle 10g. As for your questions... 1. Depends on what internal support you have. If all you have is Windows support people then go with Windows, same for Unix. Personally if you have a choice I would stay on Unix. If you switch to Windows you will need to re-code any external routines (places where you call an external shell script using $PROCESS$). 2. We upgraded our system in place. Personally I would recommend that since 7.1 changes the user fields (Submitter, Last Modified By, and Assignee) to 254 characters. 3. I can't answer that as we don't use multiple languages here. Fred ________________________________
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veerain G Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ARS 7.1.0 patch 004 Hello List, We are currently on ARS 6.3/MT 6.3/FB 6.3 on Solaris 8,9i(Unicode) database and have a custom built application.We would like to move to ARS 7.1 p4,primarily to support Japanese and German languages and also to not fall off-support with the release of the new 7.5 version. I would like members of this community who have upgraded/installed 7.1,to give suggestions/inputs on some concerns below and other details that you think are relevant. 1. Is Windows platform a better option considering stability, support and maintainence? 2. Should we go for incremental upgrade from 6.3, or have a fresh install and then move the code and data?Will there be any issues of any workflow or service not working after moving the code? 3. Are there any issues with multilingual data in one server, as version prior to 7.0 needed one server instance for one language. Thanks, Veerain _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
