This section explains how to upgrade your Rational Synergy databases to Rational Synergy Release 7.1 when using the procedure "Upgrading an Existing Server."
Before you can use your Release 6.4, 6.5, or 7.0 databases with Rational Synergy Release 7.1, you must upgrade these databases. Moreover, before you upgrade these databases, you must have installed Rational Synergy Release 7.1.
This section describes how to upgrade Rational Synergy 6.4, 6.5, or 7.0 base model databases: databases that have not been customized using a model install from a model database.
Databases customized using the Type Definition dialog box, or by modifying control files, and so on, are still considered base model databases. These databases must be upgraded using these procedures.
To upgrade model databases and databases that have been customized using a model install, contact IBM Rational Software Support.
You have completed the upgrade to your production database. To test the result, start a Rational Synergy session and perform a number of operations. This topic contains a short list of operations.
If the database was manually protected after the upgrade, you must unprotect it before you can start a session. To run your tests, unprotect the database and start a session. Then, immediately protect the database again so that developers do not use the database until you have confirmed that it is working correctly. Repeat these steps each time you start a session for testing or for the post-upgrade actions described in Performing post-upgrade steps.
Start a Rational Synergy session on the upgraded database using the cmsynergy command.Test at least the following functionality in each upgraded database:
See " Considerations for upgrading to Synergy 7.1" on page 7 for detailed information about testing the upgrade.