You must satisfy a list of requirements and assumptions before attempting to upgrade an existing ALBPM installation and migrating existing projects to this new version of ALBPM.
This document assumes you are familiar with your ALBPM 5.x installation and understand all the features used by the projects being migrated.
The guidelines in this document assume you are upgrading from ALBPM version 5.5.11+ (with latest patch) or 5.7.2+ (with latest patch) to version 6.0.3. If your projects are currently developed or deployed on earlier versions of ALBPM, you must first upgrade to the latest 5.5 or 5.7 version before moving to 6.0.3.
You must upgrade to version 6.0.3 or newer. Upgrading to earlier 6.0.x versions is not supported.
This document also includes special steps for upgrading from ALBPM WE 5.7 (WorkSpace Extensions for ALI) environments.
Version 6.0 of ALBPM drops support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 8 as the back-end store for ALBPM Directory and Engine databases. If your current ALBPM 5.x environment is deployed any of these database server versions, you must upgrade your database server before upgrading ALBPM.
The database (JDBC) users configured for the Directory and Engine Databases must have enough privileges to perform SQL DDL (Data Definition Language) operations (like ALTER, CREATE and DROP statements). Otherwise, the Process Administrator application and the Engine will fail to migrate the structures of their SQL tables and will not to start. This is only needed for the first time you start Process Administrator and each Engine.
Version 6.0 of ALBPM only supports versions 9.2 and 10 of WebLogic. If your current ALBPM 5.x environment is deployed on older versions of WebLogic (8.x), you must upgrade WebLogic before upgrading ALBPM.
Refer to the ALBPM Installation Guide for more details about which versions of WebLogic are supported.
For upgrading WebLogic Server, refer to WebLogic 9.2 Upgrade procedures and WebLogic 10 Upgrade procedures.
Version 6.0 of ALBPM only supports version 6.1.x of WebSphere. If your current ALBPM 5.x environment is deployed on older versions of WebSphere (5.x or 6.0.x), you must upgrade WebSphere before upgrading ALBPM.
Refer to the ALBPM Installation Guide for more details about which versions of WebSphere are supported.