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Upgrade Issues for Data Encryption

This topic describes data encryption issues to consider when upgrading from a previous release of Siebel Business Applications to a Siebel 8.x release.

Prior to Siebel version 8.0, application developers enabled data encryption by specifying values for business component field user properties. As of Siebel version 8.0, application developers enable data encryption by encrypting columns in database tables. All fields in the encrypted columns are encrypted.

When you upgrade from a release earlier than Siebel version 8.0 to the current release, the upgrade process automatically migrates business component field user properties to database table column properties so that all fields in the encrypted column are encrypted.

NOTE:  If data encryption is to work in release 8.x, then the encrypted column and the key index column must reside in the same database table. For information on encrypting database columns in Siebel 8.x releases, see Configuring Encryption and Search on Encrypted Data.