IBM's ifix/iFeature strategy
Hello,
I have a internal test server I am upgrading to 502 from 501. Should I upgrade to 502, then bring the system down and install the patch and start the system back up? Or can I install the patch during the upgrade and bring the system and ifix/iFeature up at the same time?
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Martha (Ruby) Andrews (3.0k●4●43●51)
| answered Mar 26 '15, 1:16 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Mar 26 '15, 1:41 p.m. The iFix CAN be installed BEFORE the upgrade. For 5.0.2 the iFix SHOULD be installed BEFORE the upgrade, because it contains a fix for the upgrade itself. (See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21695623 and defect 343736 .) Ruby Martha (Ruby) Andrews Jazz Foundation L3 Development Team Lead Sterling Ferguson-II selected this answer as the correct answer
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Sterling Ferguson-II
commented Mar 26 '15, 1:31 p.m.
The "application/server" is down before/during the upgrade. If I'm correct, the patch is "installed" when the server is up and running. So..., creating the directory and copying the patch...does the system "read" this for the upgrade?
For this defect it kinda does not make sense. It seems like, "To upgrade to 502 successfully, install the 502ifix003 patch, which you can only apply after upgrading to 502."
:-)
Hi Sterling,
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2 other answers
I had a similar question re 5.0.2 ifix2 -- That being can the patch be put down before that particular version was started (tomcat/websphere wise) The answer was Yes.
This was for an upgrade from 4.0.7 to 5.0.2; rather than bring our multitude of applications online, install the patch, restart. In fact, I later got ifix3 and placed it in the patch file, excecuted our upgrades and started the application server. Seemed to work quite well. |
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