Hello Andrea, The installation/upgrade guide has not been updated today. The fact is that there are two documents related to installation questions and you obviously used both of them. There is one document "Installation Guide: SAP DB 7.4" which is being updated right now. Since installation and upgrade procedures depend not only on database versions but there are also interactive procedures or installation/update in the background, different plattforms, installations with databases or without and if with databases it depends on their instance type and all together it depends anyhow on the installation tool you use and whether the databases refer to the same or several installations paths .... , they require an extremely complex description. We noticed that the Installation Guide: SAP DB 7.4 needed to be reworked. As a first step, we therefore extracted the really simple standard installation and deinstallation (all SAP DB Software) into a separate document called "Database Software Installation Guide". I admit that this one contains the spelling error x_server stopp (double "p", sorry for that!). As a second step we are re-writing right now the rest of the former Installation Guide as an "Installation Manual: SAP DB". This one will contain all special cases you might run in during any other than the standard installation. It will explain how to install and uninstall individual SAP DB components their dependencies and how to upgrade databases inlcuding their software. We did not remove completely the old installation guide until the new manual is ready to be published since, it contains many useful information which someone might need meanwhile. The new "Installation Manual" and the "Database Software Installation Guide" (without spelling error) will be published by the end of March/beginning of April.
Best regards Marina Montag for the SAP DB Team SAP Labs Berlin -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Aime [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 24. Februar 2003 14:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are 7.4 upgrade problems and questions being ignored? Stephen Gutknecht (SAPDB) wrote: > Bogdan posted the same message _3 times_ in _10 days_ and SAP has not > answered it. > > Is there someone assigned to help upgrade questions? > > Daniel Ellermann's questions were also not answered. My early question also > was not answered. > > Frankly, I found the upgrade documentation confusing. I've been using SAPDB > in production for 2 years on 6 servers, so it isn't like I'm a newbie. > > Stephen Gutknecht > I'm also experiencing problems... moreover, the install/update guide seems to have been updated today, without notice... I pointed out a spelling error in the first one (there was an "x_server Stopp" command, inexistent). And now, the new guide contains a new error! I copy from the pdf: ... You can use the following commands at the command prompt to do this: dbmcli �d <database_name> -u <userid>,<password> db_offline dbmcli �d <database_name> -u <userid>,<password> x_server stop ... The second line is wrong... should be only x_server stop. An moreover, if I try to upgrade by only stopping x_server and not uninstalling it with x_server remove (and rebooting) the upgrade process fails. Does _anyone_ tries the instructions given before publishing them? I'm really grateful to sap developers for the work they did on the software, but since there are people using it in production systems some more attention to this kind of details would be more than welcomed. Best regards Andrea Aime _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
