Before performing any task in this chapter, read all chapters that precede this chapter carefully and complete all tasks that apply to your products in the order in which they are presented in those chapters.

Configure your new products. For instructions, see the 9.9 product documentation.

If you installed your 9.9 products on a different machine than your old products, make sure to update host names in your 9.9 products, in the connections between your products, and in your database tables. This guide indicates many locations in which to update host names, but make sure you also specify the correct host names when you configure your 9.9 products using the instructions in the product documentation. Also make sure any absolute paths in the 9.9 configuration files point to valid locations, or change them to be correct for the new machine. If the machine has a different operating system or hardware, make sure your JVM settings are correct.

Read the 9.9 product readmes, including the 9.9 readme for the Software AG Infrastructure, available on the Software AG Documentation website. The product readmes contain this information:

Critical information, known issues, fixes, resolved issues that had not been rolled into fixes at the time of the release, and usage notes for your products.

Changes to product behavior, services, parameters, properties, APIs, documentation, and terminology. This information is especially important because you might need to modify product files or assets to accommodate the changes.

Read the product release notes; the release notes provide information on new functionality. Read the information for every release for your old release + 1 through the 9.9 release.

After installation, you might have set Windows services for products to Manual, and disabled scripts that start UNIX daemons, to avoid automatically starting both old and new products. When your new environment is ready, after you stop running the old products and when you want to start running the new ones, you can reset the Windows services to Automatic, and re-enable the UNIX scripts.