Please observe the following before you migrate existing process instance-independent data series from a PPM system version 4 to a PPM system version 9 using the command line program runppmconverter.bat in <installation directory>\ppmmashzone\server\bin\agentLocalRepo\.unpacked\ppm-client-<version>-runnable.zip\ppm\bin:
Before conversion, you need to back up import data of process instance-independent data series from a PPM database version 4 to an XML file (see PPM Migration Guide). If configuration changes affecting the structure of data series are required before the conversion of existing data series you need to delete any existing import files before the conversion (see chapter Configuration import), otherwise, the conversion program aborts with an error message.
If you use the command line converter with the option -ignorepikidata all existing import data of existing data series are completely deleted before conversion.
After conversion of the configuration for PPM version 9 you can import the exported data again, see technical reference PPM Data Import.
Data series containing referenced measures that are no longer supported (refki XML elements) are not converted automatically. The conversion program outputs a message that, if required, you can export existing data of the data series, adapt the configuration accordingly, and reimport the data including the adapted configuration.
If you use the XML attribute deletedataonredefinition, which is no longer supported, in existing process instance-independent data series, it must be removed manually from the configuration before conversion.
Data series in the PPM system version 9 are preconfigured with the PROCESS type. If the data series to be converted contain different measure types (RELATION, OT_FUNC, OT_ORG) they cannot be converted automatically. The configuration must be adapted manually before conversion.