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Can I import work items and stream history from a 3.0.1 installation to a new standalone 5.0.1 version?

 We are looking to upgrade Jazz server and RTC from version 3.0.1 to the full Jazz CLM version 5.0.1.

After reading about the level of effort involved, I'm wondering if it would be simpler / possible to just install a new clean install of version 5.0.1 and then manually export the work items and stream history from the 3.0.1 version and import them into the 5.

Any ideas?

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 I don't think you can import work items with history. RTC also doesn't have the function to export/import streams cross servers.

I think follow the upgrading interactive guide to upgrade the v3.0.1 server to 5.0.1 is the best way.

Also, you lose all SCM snapshots on the duplicate 



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Workitems, no history. Source requires same level servers. 

Last time I did this I had a machine in the middle. Copied source (duplicate workspace & stream) then upgraded middle to match end and duplicated again. I ended up writing a utility   to do all the duplication.  

Also workitems need more work for links, comments, attachments, and approvals. 
Another utility my coworker wrote. 

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There is, so far, no built in capability to migrate the data. This is a popular request, however.

Work Items - the easiest approach is using CSV export/import. Unfortunately CSV is a horrible format for doing this. You would, for example, have to go through the data and remove line breaks e.g. from description fields. There is also more work involved if you want to link the work items up.

SCM - you can use distributed SCM ( https://jazz.net/library/article/535 , https://jazz.net/library/article/1399 ) allows to transfer streams with history, but there is manual work to accept all baselines and you loose the snapshots (or have to recreate them). The systems also must be on compatible versions, which means you have to upgrade the old server to 5.x.

Several users have written tools to help with this (including Sam). There might be a service offering to help with this, however it will likely require to upgrade the old server to a compatible version, too.

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