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About Supported Upgrade Paths

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: All environments.

Supported upgrade paths are described in System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Siebel SupportWeb. The Upgrade Guide for DB2 UDB for z/OS describes how to upgrade the following installations:

• A Siebel 6.x FINS installation to Release 7.7.
• A Siebel 7.x installation to Release 7.7.

The Upgrade Guide for DB2 UDB for z/OS does not cover the following specific upgrade paths or infrastructure changes. Contact Siebel Technical Support or Siebel Expert Services for help with these tasks:

• Changing operating system type during an upgrade, for example changing from Windows to UNIX.
• Migrating to Unicode.
• Migrating from Siebel Industry Solutions applications or Siebel Financial Services applications to Siebel eBusiness applications.

  If your enterprise uses SAP and you have implemented the Siebel Systems Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) product, see Siebel Connector for SAP R/3.

• Upgrading from one base language to another. To achieve similar results, upgrade your existing base language and install the Siebel language pack for the desired language.