Re: WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express

[Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info.   When we try to install the migration tool, we are 
getting the following error: Application Migration Tool - Common Feature 
3.5.2.v20130608_1226.

Do you have any suggestions for resolving this?

Mark

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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
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> 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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> Subject: [WEB400] WAS Upgrade 5.1 Express to 7.0 Express
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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