Running an older version of DRAS with a newer repository (View, Dispatch or Bundl)

Products

• Bundl
• Dispatch Output Mgmt
• Output Management Document Viewer
• Deliver
• View
• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

The Dispatch r11.7 manual contains the following erroneous discussion:

"Upgrade Sequence:
You do not have to upgrade all products immediately when upgrading CA Dispatch to r11.7.
CA Dispatch r11.7 works with:

• CA DRAS r11.5 and r11.6. You can upgrade CA DRAS to the current version at your convenience."

Again, this discussion is incorrect.

Is it possible to run an older version of DRAS with a newer repository (View, Dispatch or Bundl)?

Environment

Release: Dispatch 11.7

Resolution

DRAS r11.7 is backward compatible where Dispatch is concerned. DRAS r11.7 will support Dispatch r11.7 as well as Dispatch r11.0.

DRAS is NOT upwardly compatible where the repository version is concerned. A later version of DRAS will support accessing a lower version of a repository, but not vice versa. As this is true for all the supported report repositories, the same is true for View 12.0. If the Output Management Web Viewer is accessing View 12.0, it must do so through DRAS 12.0.