This chapter describes the tasks that are specific to performing a mainframe-centric, development environment upgrade, a production test upgrade or a production upgrade. Refer to the roadmap for your upgrade in How to Perform the Upgrade for a complete list of all the tasks you must perform to upgrade your environment to Siebel 7.8.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Generating Development Environment Mainframe-Centric Upgrade Files
• Transferring the dedup Files
• Preparing the z/OS Host Environment
• Resuming the Siebel Upgrade Wizard After the First Pause
• Transferring Control Cards and Schema DDL Files to the z/OS Host
• Preparing the Schema and JCL Files on the z/OS Host
• Installing Stored Procedures on the z/OS Host
• Preparing Siebel-Scheduled Jobs on the z/OS Host
• Optimizing the Target Job Stream, Part 1
• Optimizing Old-Schema Index Rebuild Jobstreams
• Loading Log Tables on the Source Database
• Loading Log Tables on the Target Database
• Executing the Upgrade on the z/OS Host (Phase 1 of 2)
• Resuming the Siebel Upgrade Wizard on the Midtier After the Second Pause
• Transferring the Index Schema to the z/OS Host
• Preparing Siebel-Scheduled JCL
• Optimizing the Target Job Stream, Part 2
• Executing the Upgrade on the z/OS Host (Phase 2 of 2)
• Performing Intersection Table Maintenance
• Resuming the Siebel Upgrade Wizard on the Midtier After the Third Pause
• Restarting Failed Jobs on the Mainframe