Running an in-place upgrade

You can run an in-place upgrade from an Oracle InForm 7.0 release. For all other releases, you must first migrate to a 7.0 release.

Note:

Prior to running an in-place upgrade, you must stop all studies, services, and other integrations, such as Oracle InForm Adapter and Oracle InForm Publisher.

If the in-place upgrade fails for any reason, use the backup files you created in the Back up the Oracle InForm study and admin databases and files for the in-place upgrade chapter to restore your Oracle InForm 7.0 environment. For more information, see Restore a previous Oracle InForm release.

• Upgrade the Oracle Central Designer rules engine
  
• Back up the Oracle InForm study and admin databases and files for the in-place upgrade
  
• Update the Oracle InForm application server software
  
• Upgrade the database parameters
  
• Deploy the SQL profiles
  
• Run the in-place upgrade
  
• Enable network access rights for automated study deployments on the Oracle InForm application server
  
• Create new database objects for the review schema (Optional)
  
• Start the Oracle InForm study and server
  
• Update subject workflows