As a best practice, you should always set up multiple tools release foundations, including a test environment for applying fixes to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tools releases. This helps ensure that a stable environment exists before you promote fixes to your production environment. You can also use this same principle and procedure to set up multiple foundations of major tools releases, such as Tools Release 9.1 and Tools Release 9.2.
The procedures described in this document enable customers to target specific environments when they install a tools release. For example, customers can keep the production environment running on the existing foundation and apply the new tools release to all other environments. This configuration enables them to perform tests on the new foundation code without impacting the production environment. When they complete the testing, they can then apply the new tools release to production.
By completing the tasks below, you can configure your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems to
handle many foundations on a single enterprise server. These tasks require that you
reconfigure pathcodes and jde.ini files to set up multiple foundations,
but once the initial tasks are completed, the new configuration requires very little
maintenance.
Before you begin the installation, consider these factors:
The multiple foundation setup uses one security server process per port.
If you have multiple Enterprise Servers at different tools release levels, make sure each of them is pointing to the correct security data sources.
If you have multiple foundations or multiple Enterprise Servers at different tools release levels, a dual maintenance of users and passwords is required.
Before beginning installation of the Tools Release 9.2, check the associated
readme.txtfile for late-breaking information and requirements.
This appendix consists of the following tasks: