Overview
This section provides detailed instructions on how to migrate and upgrade an existing QAD Enterprise Edition environment into a new 2017 QAD Enterprise Edition environment. See on
here for instructions on upgrading an existing QAD Enterprise Edition environment to 2017 QAD Enterprise Edition.
At a high level, the process required involves:
• Creating a new YAB-installed EE environment
• Restoring the previous EE release databases (mfg, admin, help) from the existing environment into the newly installed EE environment
• Executing the EE upgrade process
The EE upgrade process in YAB uses the existing conversion routines from previous EE releases, and follows a similar sequence of steps. At a high level these steps are:
• Determining the source database version
• Determining the appropriate:
• Schema files to load
• List of conversion routines to be executed
• Deleting system data records from both the qaddb and qadadm databases
• Upgrading the database schema and structure appropriately for qaddb, qadadm and qadhlp
• Executing the conversion routines for the qaddb and qadadm databases
Important: Only use the following upgrade instructions to upgrade an existing Enterprise Edition installation to the latest release. Do not use this option if your current environment is not Enterprise Edition.