CA View - Upgrade to a Supported Release

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

The client has multiple CA View/Deliver environments to upgrade. From level 11.0 they can upgrade to level 11.6. From level 11.6 they can upgrade to currently-supported level 12.2.

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : CA View

Resolution

For their environments, the client has the following:

 . View 11.0 / Deliver 11.0

 . View 11.6 / Deliver 11.6

 . View 12.0 / Deliver 12.0

When upgrading View/Deliver, the following is done, as would be used with most mainframe products:

 . Install the product

 . Update procs

 . Update JCL, including anything referencing the load library

To back up a View or Deliver database, to a flat file, use:

 . SARDBASE UNLOAD

 . RMODBASE UNLOAD

The historical upgrade path is to upgrade View first, then Deliver, as Deliver is downward compatible. 

Unique to View/Deliver upgrades is the VERSIONing of a database to the new code level. 

For View 11.0, the recommendation is to:

 . Bring the code level up to 11.6. 

 . Run SARDBASE VERSION 11.6, to bring the database to the 11.6 level. 

 . Run SARDBASE OLOAD, to load the 11.6 panels to the database. 

For View 11.6, the recommendation is to:

 . Bring the code level up to 12.2. 

 . Run SARDBASE VERSION 12.2, to bring the database to the 12.2 level. 

 . Run SARDBASE OLOAD, to load the 12.2 panels to the database. 

For View 12.0, the recommendation is to:

 . Bring the code level up to 12.2. 

 . Run SARDBASE VERSION 12.2, to bring the database to the 12.2 level. 

 . Run SARDBASE OLOAD, to load the 12.2 panels to the database.