Starting the Upgrade Assistant

Run the Upgrade Assistant to upgrade product schemas, domain component configurations, or standalone system components to Oracle Analytics Server.

To start the Upgrade Assistant:

Note:

Before you start the Upgrade Assistant, make sure that the JVM character encoding is set to UTF-8 for the platform on which the Upgrade Assistant is running. If the character encoding is not set to UTF-8, then you will not be able to download files containing Unicode characters in their names. This can cause the upgrade to fail.

1. Go to the oracle_common/upgrade/bin directory:
   • (Linux) ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/upgrade/bin
   • (Windows) ORACLE_HOME\oracle_common\upgrade\bin
2. Start the Upgrade Assistant:
   • (Linux) ./ua
   • (Windows) ua.bat