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Concurrent Release Considerations

Important! CA View Release 11.7, Version 12.0, and Release 12.1 are the only releases of CA View that can be upgraded to Release 12.2. Do not attempt to upgrade from a release before Release 11.7.

If you are upgrading in an SMP/E CSI that contains a different version or release of Deliver, you must define new SMP/E target and distribution zones for CA View Release 12.2. CA View Release 12.2 cannot be installed into an SMP/E zone that contains a previous release of CA Deliver. However, CA View Release 12.2 can share an SMP/E zone with CA Deliver Release 12.2.

Be aware of the following:

• Beginning with Release 11.7, the product target and distribution library naming conventions were changed.
• Beginning with Release 11.5, to help simplify installations and upgrades, the foreign language panel FMIDs have been incorporated into the CA View base FMID.

  All four panel libraries must exist or the apply step will fail.

  Be prepared to enlarge any existing panel libraries before you run the apply step. See the Hardware Requirements section to determine the amount of space required for these libraries and adjust it accordingly.

• CA View Release 11.7, Version 12.0, and Release 12.1 databases can be upgraded to Release 12.2.
• The CA View Release 12.2 database can receive reports and retain bundle holding copies from CA Deliver Release 11.7, Version 12.0, Release 12.1, and Release 12.2 direct archival mechanism.

  The CA Deliver ARCH specifications can reference CA View databases at any of these release levels.

• The CA View Release 12.2 cross-memory region can access CA View Release 11.7, Version 12.0, Release 12.1, and Release 12.2 database release levels.
• The CA View Release 12.2 DRAS agent can access CA View supported databases Release 12.2, Release 12.1, Version 12.0, and Release 11.7.

  Note: For compatibility, if you versioned your CA View database to the most recent version, verify that your DRAS task is using the most recent libraries.

The diagram that follows shows the relationship between multiple versions of CA View and CA Deliver.