Updating from BOE XI 3.1 2.3 to 3.5

[Former Member]

We are getting ready to update to FP 3.5 from BOE XI 3.1 FP 2.3 can you share your experiences with me, good and bad. Also please include any gotcha involved in the update process.

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear,

be aware that you probably have to install SP 3 before go for FP 3.5.

rgds,

Massimo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Massimo

Thank you for replying to my thread, your comment was appreciated and I consider it good advice.

I am still looking for feedback from peoples experiences who have done the update, if they encountered any issues, tricks they had to employ to get the update to work and any changes in the tools they have seen, the tools look, feel or performance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear,

mainly it depends on how your Landscape is built and which apllications your are using in combination with BOXI.

Another usefule advice if you are running on Windows may be better to go for the 3.6 due to possible compatibility problem with KB2509553.

Pls. provide some extra info on your landscape.

Rgds,

Massimo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Massimo,

Again, thank you for replying. The landscape consist of two servers clustered together with OS windows 2003 server sp2 ; running BOXI 3.1 sp2 fp2.7.

Gregory

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

still some extra questions:

Do you use Crystal Report or excelsius or any other tools?

Do you have only a Production environment or do you have other environment?

Do you use LCM?

Do you use SAP Integration Kit?

Other?

Ciao,

Massimo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Q: Do you use Crystal Report or Xcelsius or any other tools?

A: Yes we are using Crystal Reports and Xcelsius.

Q: Do you have only a Production environment or do you have other environment?

A: No, we do have other environments, DEV, QA, PROD and a Test environment.

Q: Do you use LCM?

A: Yes, we do use LCM.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Gregory,

well I can see that the Landscape is quite complex.

More a project then en upgrade and sure too much complex to fully discuss it in the forum.

I don't know how you are going to deal with it just I can mind that every time you transport the upgrade from one environment to another you will perform some test, I mean:

Test --> test --> Dev --> test --> QAS ... etc...

A good practices is to transport all the objects you need for testing (in all environment) before start the upgrade, be sure that they works, it will save you a lot of head hurt

Remeber that the environment components must be all on the same level so when you upgrade BOXI you must upgrade CR and Xcelsius and LCM etc... too.

Ciao,

Massimo

[Former Member]

Thank you for your input