BuildForge 7.0.2.0008 upgrade
Hi,
I'm upgrading a BF 7.0.2.0008 (which corresponds to 7.0.2 iFix2 I presume) install to 7.1.1.3 (to be able to go to 7.1.3.4). Environment is Win2k8R2 and SQL_Server 2005 The instructions say to install 7.1.1.3 on the server on which 7.0.2 runs, however, we also need to move BF to different server, so I installed 7.1..1.3 on a separate server and got it to work there perfectly. When migrating the configuration data I run into problems. I copied the buildforge.conf from the 7.0.2 server to migrate.conf on the server on which i installed 7.1.1.3. Running bfmigrateconfig -ms resulted in an error "Unable to connect to database" at first because I hadn't created an additional ODBC connection yet for the old database on the new server (duh). Running bfmigrateconfig -ms now results in the following error: CRRBF1450I: Your Build Forge schema doesn't appear to exist. run the installer or bfschema to create it. CRRBFEEEEE: DB Migration Config Is Invalid
Can you tell me how to fix this? I hope the solution is not installing BF 7.1.1.3 alongside 7.0.2 on the same server.
Thanks!
Jozef
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Our problem was that the bfmigrate tools do not copy data from one SQL_Server database to another. Multiple schemas have to be used within the same database (a bf702 schema that's associated with the original data, a bfscratch schema because our version of BF was pre-7.0.2 iFix 2 and a bf711 schema).
A second problem was that the type of the 7.0.2 bf_store.bf_uid column was varchar(32). That means that column in the staging table is created as varchar(32) as well but the migration tools attempt to copy varchar(64) data to it. Jozef |
This doc describes the process you are trying to execute. One of the steps is indeed installing 7.1.1 along side 7.0.2
https://jazz.net/downloads/pages/rational-build-forge/7.1.1.4/M2/images/BuildForge-InstallGuide-M2.pdf
If you continue to have problems, I suggest opening a PMR for support assistance.
Comments Thanks for the reply. That document is functionally identical to the one for 7.1.1.3 I'm using: I opened a PMR and it turns out the version of BF we're running is even older than I thought. I also requires creating a Scratch database. Jozef |
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