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How the Upgrade Process Works

Important! This guide only discusses the upgrade process from r11.3. If you are upgrading from a release before r11.3, contact CA Support.

To upgrade CA WA CA 7 Edition, follow the steps to install the product as outlined in this guide. You will:

• Prepare for the upgrade
• Acquire the product
• Install the product into your SMP/E environment
• Deploy the product as needed
• Configure CA Datacom/AD for use with the product
• Configure the product

When you complete these steps, you have a working copy of CA WA CA 7 Edition Version 12.0 suitable for testing.

But when you upgrade, more tasks are required before you can use this release in your production environment. You must:

• Convert your existing scheduling data

  The scheduling data in the release you are now using is stored in various formats in VSAM and direct-access files. CA WA CA 7 Edition Version 12.0 requires that the data be converted and then loaded into CA Datacom/AD tables.

Because it is important to ensure that the scheduling information you currently have is preserved for your upgrade, the release also requires you to:

• Validate your converted scheduling data

These additional tasks make the upgrade experience for Version 12.0 different from the experience in previous releases. In previous releases, an upgrade was basically an installation with program and environment modifications. The scheduling data did not require modification to be used in the new release.