Tony; If it helps - here are some of my experiences installing UD 7.2.7PE at home and upgrading UniAdmin at work. I did uninstall UD beforehand (mostly I had made a mess of the SB/XA personal edition and was cleaning everything up and moving it around).
Downloads from the new Rocket site are very similar to the IBM site - you have to fill out a web form to get to the download URL. Nothing besides basic contact info. I did get an auto-generated e-mail: "Thank you for your interest in Rocket Software. Your information has been received. A representative from Rocket will be contacting you shortly." But I haven't heard anything since (it's been about a month). Not that I'm complaining :) I don't think you have to license the PE versions - they just have an expiry date. It's all just pre-populated when you go through install and if you check it later. The clients download is still huge. I can't recall if the "personal" download was split but when downloading through U2BC there are two clients (the smaller being the new DataVue query download). Still not sure where the new "Xadmin" client is and UniDebugger is still in the client even though it's been deprecated and BDT is a separate download. The install went easy and the default path is much shorter now. I did split out the UniAdmin directory from the client download to send to a client. Testing on my machine caused my earlier version of UniAdmin (in fact all 3 of them) to completely fail. Uninstalling all of them and reinstalling the latest got it working again. I haven't tried it with anything prior to 7.1 but it does have back to 5.1 in the version dropdown list. I was running that many versions because the later versions didn't seem to want to connect to earlier versions of UniData - hopefully this one will.... Good luck! Hth Colin Alfke Calgary, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Tony Gravagno A while back I posted a blog with details about upgrading Universe and Unidata. A lot of people found it to be helpful. nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2008/09/u2upgrade1.html (please remove 'nospam') I am now about to upgrade once again, just to ensure I have the very latest [ and greatest? ;) ]. I have specific questions about this endeavor: 1) Can anyone at Rocket confirm changes in the Universe 10.3.x installers which invalidate any statements I made about 10.2? Similarly for Unidata 7.2.7 vs 7.2.0. 2) What is the process for renewing PE licenses? Is there a prompt from the installer? Do we need to fill out some website form? Send an email? I don't think I've done this since the IBM>Rocket change. 3) Rather than installing an entire 600MB Clients for Windows package, is there a base package that can be obtained with just Uniadmin and UO support? 4) Please see issues with the Clients package documented in the blog, and comment if any of that is no longer accurate. 5) Is there a UVPE/Win v11? 6) Are there any other caveats or words of advice for minor upgrades like this? Final note for Rocket. On the download page the Expires date for UVPE shows "11 Nov Feb 2011". http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/resources/downloads I'll be happy to blog this experience like I did last time. Thanks! Tony Gravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
