Re: WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

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Today's Topics:

1. WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express (Mark)
2. Re: WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express (Dean, Robert)
3. Re: WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express (Jim Oberholtzer)


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message: 1
date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:38:55 -0400
from: Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WEB400] WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

We are working on upgrading our system from V5R4 to 7.1, and before we
can do that we need to upgrade WAS. We have never tried to upgrade WAS
before, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suggestions on
things we need to look for, especially when it comes to migrating our
applications.

Thanks,

Mark

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message: 2
date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:02:20 +0000
from: "Dean, Robert" <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

If you have the source code for your applications, I would suggest downloading IBM's migration toolkit and using it to see what issues you will have.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/migtoolkit/config.html

As for the actual migration, the directions in the InfoCenter have worked pretty well for us. If you've done anything more than basic configuration changes, you'll want to double-check the values after the migration.

If your application would support it, I'd recommend looking at a second migration to WAS 8.5. For our applications and configuration, it's proving to be very stable and fast.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:39 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

We are working on upgrading our system from V5R4 to 7.1, and before we can do that we need to upgrade WAS. We have never tried to upgrade WAS before, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suggestions on things we need to look for, especially when it comes to migrating our applications.

Thanks,

Mark

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message: 3
date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:30:08 -0500
from: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

I concur with Robert's suggestion you go straight to WAS 8.5 Express.

Do be warned that in addition to the things Robert said, the packaging
in WAS 8.5 was changed quite a bit from earlier versions. The
documentation is at best extraordinarily poor, it's written as tough the
reader is already a subject matter expert rather than an ordinary user.
We found a complete reimplementation of the applications was needed,
although in our case we did not have to do much with code.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/11/2013 2:38 PM, Mark wrote:

We are working on upgrading our system from V5R4 to 7.1, and before we
can do that we need to upgrade WAS. We have never tried to upgrade WAS
before, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suggestions on
things we need to look for, especially when it comes to migrating our
applications.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark Brier's Email Signature
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