Hello listers, we're upgrading an ARS 7.1 patch 7 non UNICODE on AIX 5.3 against an Oracle DB with UTF8 character set to ARS 7.6.04 SP4 always on Oracle with UTF8
As a first step we're doing the upgrade on our dev environment, then we'll proceed with test env and finally with prod During the installation process, after the Type of Installation (Upgrade, Overwrite, Server group) step, for which we selected the Upgrade option, the Installer gave us the following error: "The database is configured for UNICODE but your system LANG variable is set to C You must change your LANG variable to a supported UNICODE language before you can complete this installation" Now: 1) our current ARS 7.1 non UNICODE installation has been always running without any problem on a UNICODE Oracle db 2) our idea is to avoid all the complications involved in transforming our ARS installation into a UNICODE ARS, mostly because we realized in the past that it wasn't possible to change ARS from non UNICODE to UNICODE during the execution of the ARS 7.1 upgrade scipt, and BMC told us to do a fresh new installation and data exp/imp instead, which is not feasible for us We just opened a ticket to BMC and they told us that the upgrade from Non-Unicode to Unicode environment and Unicode to non-Unicode is not supported from ARS 7.5 onward, and that we should tell our DBA to change the database to non-Unicode to proceed with the ARS 7.6 upgrade Again, for a number of reasons we cannot change our DB to non UNICODE. How should we proceed now? Any tips? Thanks a lot in advance Kind Regards, Antonello Monizza _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
