Planning your clients upgrade

Planning the upgrade of your clients requires that you review all of the applicable upgrade prerequisites, pre-upgrade tasks, upgrade tasks and post-upgrade tasks.

To create an upgrade plan for your clients:

1. Write the upgrade plan for clients, using all the details that apply to your environment:

   Table 1. Upgrade plan details for clients.

   Upgrade plan	Details
   Prerequisites	Ensure that you: meet the installation requirements for DB2® database products. resolve any support issues in upgrade essentials for clients including client and server connectivity. meet all prerequisites for the upgrade task and subtasks, especially obtaining root or Local Administrator access and required DB2 authorization.
   Pre-upgrade tasks	Include the following tasks: Upgrade your DB2 servers Back up your client configuration information In addition, check the list of pre-upgrade tasks for optional tasks that you might want to perform for your environment such as upgrading your clients in a test environment.
   Upgrade task	You must include these steps: Install Version 9.7 client Upgrade client instance Review the following upgrade tasks to determine the additional steps that are required to upgrade your environment: Upgrading to Data Server Client (Windows) Upgrading to Data Server Runtime Client (Windows) Upgrading clients (Linux and UNIX)
   Post-upgrade tasks	Include the following tasks: Recatalog nodes and databases that use NetBIOS and SNA protocols Review changes in DB2 server behavior Verify that upgrade for clients was successful Bind the database utilities and the DB2 CLI bind files

2. Combine with the upgrade plan for other components such as DB2 servers, database applications, and routines to create an overall upgrade plan for your DB2 environment.