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Preparing for a Nondevelopment Environment Siebel Upgrade

Environments: Production test, production.

Platforms: Windows, UNIX, IBM z/OS.

If your installation does not include a development environment, then you do not need to merge your Siebel Repository. Instead, you can use the repository and schema definition files included in the Siebel Database Server installation.

Before performing the upgrade, you must move and rename these files.

To prepare for a Siebel upgrade in a nondevelopment environment

1. Navigate to DBSRVR_ROOT\common (UNIX: DBSRVR_ROOT/common) and locate the mstrep.dat file.
2. Copy the mstrep.dat file and rename it custrep.dat.
3. Place the custrep.dat file in the DBSRVR_ROOT\Platform (UNIX: DBSRVR_ROOT/platform) directory, where platform is the database platform, for example DBSRVR_ROOT\DB2.
4. In the platform directory, copy the ddl.ctl file and paste the copy into the same directory.
5. Rename the copy schema.ddl.
6. In the production test environment create a new database, separate from the Siebel database.

   Install the Siebel database from the new release in the new database. Do not migrate any data to the new database. This database is called the reference database.

7. Define an ODBC for the reference database.