Oh yes and do yourself a favor and create yourself a symlink: /usr/ibm/uv to /usr/uv
That way you can avoid any nuisances with Rocket changing the path name on you. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, John Thompson <jthompson...@gmail.com>wrote: > I just went from 10.3.4 on AIX 5.3, to 11.1.4 on Red Hat 6.2 > > Most of the pain was the operating system conversion and new hardware. > > The actual Universe stuff was pretty painless. > We've only been live for a few days, so I have not had time to play with > any new stuff. > > We had to rebuild our globally cataloged stuff, but, we had the source > code. > > We had to transfer over items from UV.ACCOUNTS file. > > We had to upgrade all the VOC's, but, they have command line utility that > you can write a BASIC program to do that if you want. > -The utility is called = /usr/uv/bin/updaccount > -Someone on the list had a utility to run this in every account. > -I think all you need to do is, loop through the UV.ACCOUNTS file and run > this command on every account > > Oh yes, and then if you have a file called 'ORDER' (I mean, who would > write a business application with a file called ORDER!!!- note the > sarcasm), then you have to put those file pointers back, because the > upgrade utility will wipe them out. Just look in &TEMP& of the account > and you will find the VOC items replaced by the upgrade utility. > > Oh yeah and then we have to run format.conv on every file and object code > to bit swap them from AIX to Linux, but, again, if you aren't changing > OS's, you don't need to worry about that. Again, another BASIC program to > write. > > Thats all I can remember, as I haven't slept much in the past week... > > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Chris Austin <cjausti...@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Here is the writeup from one user (who upgraded to 11.1): >> >> http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/04/u2upgrade2.html >> >> Chris >> >> >> > From: cjausti...@hotmail.com >> > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:03:56 -0600 >> > Subject: Re: [U2] Universe 10.2 to 11.1 >> > >> > >> > Harold, >> > >> > I just did this upgrade about a week ago.. it was super easy. I >> actually went from 10.1.18 to 11.1.1 and the transition was smooth but >> > there were a couple things to note: >> > >> > 1) Install Universe 11.x under the 'modify' setting. >> > 2) The file paths are diff (c:\ibm\uv vs. c:\u2\uv), so agree to have >> the files MOVED from one to the other (during install). [make sure >> permissions allow this on the folder] >> > 3) run UPDATE.ACCOUNT (UniVerse command) in each of the UniVerse >> accounts, then update the VOC when it asks you to. >> > >> > Cost = 1 day of my time >> > Time = 2 hours (most of the time spent was getting the UniVerse license) >> > >> > 11.1.1 has been perfect for me so far and I have not had 1 hiccup as a >> result of the upgrade. >> > >> > Here is a writeup done by one user: >> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.u2.general/65456 >> > >> > Here was my post from the other week: >> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.u2.general/65456 >> > >> > Chris >> > >> > >> > > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:34:31 -0800 >> > > From: harold.o...@clark.wa.gov >> > > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >> > > Subject: [U2] Universe 10.2 to 11.1 >> > > >> > > All: >> > > >> > > Who has upgraded Universe 10.2 to 11.1? Difficult or not? Costs? >> Time? >> > > More generally, I'm addressing anyone using Universe 11.1 coming from >> > > any other place. >> > > >> > > On their website, Rocket states: >> > > "UniVerse V11.1 adds powerful high availability, interoperability, >> > > administration and security capabilities to the solid extended >> > > relational database." >> > > >> > > >> > > EDA (Extended Data Architecture) sounds quite interesting (this is >> under >> > > "interoperability"): >> > > >> > > "External Database Access (EDA) External database access (EDA) >> provides >> > > the flexibility to store some or all of your data in either UniVerse >> > > files or an external database such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and >> > > IBM DB2. >> > > EDA provides the ability to transparently access and update data from >> an >> > > existing UniVerse application. Graphical tools ease schema mapping and >> > > configuration management." >> > > >> > > >> > > Has 11.1 been a happy choice for you? >> > > >> > > Thanks for any advice and opinions- >> > > Harold Oaks >> > > Clark County >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > This e-mail and related attachments and any response may be subject >> to public disclosure under state law. >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > U2-Users mailing list >> > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > U2-Users mailing list >> > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> > > > > -- > John Thompson > -- John Thompson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
