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Step 1: Prepare for the Upgrade

Read this guide in its entirety, the Release Notes, and other recommended material so that you can understand the process as a whole. This material helps you prepare for the installation. As you read this guide, pay close attention to the remarks concerning an upgrade. A number of important differences between r11.3 and the new release are discussed in Upgrade Considerations.

Also, understanding how the product is used at your site is important. That understanding helps you ensure that the product continues to provide the functionality you have come to expect. Options and features that the new release introduced can change product behavior in ways you do not anticipate. Become familiar with the Release Notes. With that information, you can get a good sense of what to expect from the upgrade.

Another important part of the install preparation is finding an appropriate environment in which to test the new release. If at all possible, try to secure the use of a test system where you can test the new release without affecting your production environment. If you cannot use such a system and must deploy the new release on the system hosting the earlier release, consider assigning another tracking instance to use with the new release. If you are unable to use a tracking instance, you can do some product testing with a nontracking instance.

Note: For more information about tracking, see the Systems Programming Guide.

You also decide whether you to use CA CSM for all or part of the product installation.

Note: Even if you decide to use CA CSM to install the product, you still must convert and validate your existing scheduling data. These tasks are not strictly part of product installation. They are not included in the CA CSM installation process.

Also remember that this release requires CA Datacom/AD services. This guide discusses use of CA Datacom/AD. As you prepare to install CA WA CA 7 Edition, you want to ensure that the MUF services are available wherever you intend to run CA7ONL, Jobflow Illustrator (JFI), Jobflow Monitor (JFM), or any other program that requires access to CA WA CA 7 Edition scheduling data.

Take care to preserve your existing environment (load libraries, SYSGEN information, JCLLIB, and more) so that it is available in the unlikely event that you have to stop using the new release and return to the old one (reversion).

This step is further discussed in Preparing for Installation.