upgrade DS server 7.5 to DS server 7.5.1.a

[kjaouhari]

Hello All,

Sorry for my english

I have an issue with oracle stage in ds server 7.5 and it was ok with ds server 7.1.

Can somenone help me, i want to upgrade ds 7.5 to ds 7.5.1.a. Someone can explain me what i need and what's the process for install.

Thanks

[ogmios]

The Oracle stage is known to work... not work... work... not work ... on and off since version 4.

Best is also to log a case with Ascential/IBM... sometimes they have workarounds/patches available.

For the upgrade if you really want to go ahead:
- DataStage always has an installation guide.
- Going from v7.5 to v7.5.1.a should be very easy.

Ogmios

[kcbland]

Make an export for all your projects, try upgrade in place, if that doesn't work, de-install and then install and re-import.

[kjaouhari]

can someone provide me this patch ?

[chulett]

There's no patch needed. As noted, make good backups and then simply install 7.5.1a right over the top of 7.5. Easy as pie.

[kjaouhari]

Ok thanks,

I understand that is not just a patch but a complete neuw installation.

thanks guys.

[ogmios]

I suggested to first check with Ascential/IBM for a patch. For some things they have patches and doing an upgrade from 7.5 to 7.5.1.a seems a bit overkill.

Don't know whether a patch really exists. Most of my installations are currently 7.5.1.a and the Oracle stage seems to work correctly in there.

Ogmios

[chulett]

Actually, there are quite a boat-load of fixes between 7.5 and 7.5.1a... the former was quite buggy, apparently.

I believe there is a patch for a particular issue with the OCI stage and the stoopid 'SQL Builder Tool' but you can check into stuff like that post-upgrade.

Good to see you back, Ogmios. You've been.... gone... for awhile it seems.

[ogmios]

Other environments ... but from time to time we get back to good old DataStage :D