Upgrading OpenPages

Applies to:

Upgrade to get the latest fixes and features.

Before you begin

If you are upgrading from 9.0.x and you use a custom keystore, do the steps in Preparing the encryption keystore before you upgrade.
Complete the following preparation tasks:
- Download the installation kit from Passport Advantage®
- Review new features and fixes
- Backing up your environment
- Verifying servers before you upgrade
If you installed the agents on remote servers manually, ensure that the agents are running.
If your application servers cannot access the internet and you updated WebSphere® Liberty features manually in the past, do steps 1-6 in the following task: Updating WebSphere features manually.
If you want to upgrade the database manually, complete the database update before you use the installation app to install the fix pack. For more information, see Upgrade the OpenPages database (Db2).
Ensure that IBM® Cognos® Configuration is not running.

About this task

Use the installation server to upgrade OpenPages.

Procedure

Log in to the OpenPages installation app.
For more information, see Logging in to the installation app.
Open the deployment that you want to upgrade.
If your deployment is already open, refresh the page.
Click the Deployment Task list and select Upgrade, and then select the version that you want to install.

If Upgrade is not displayed in the Deployment Task list, click Validate.

Figure 1. Selecting the upgrade task
Click the Database Server card.
Click Install Database and select one of the following options:
- Full Database: Select this option if the database is not updated yet. The installation app will apply the fix pack to the database.
- Already Installed: Select this option if the database is already updated.
For fix packs, the Only Non-DBA and Already Installed options are equivalent.
If you chose Full Database, type the DBA Username and the DBA Password.

The user that you specify must have both DBADM and SECADM authorities.
On the Report Server card, review the Java Home field. Ensure that it is set to the IBM Java™ JRE that is supplied with Cognos
For example:
- On Windows: C:\IBM\cognos\analytics\ibm-jre\jre
- On Linux®: /usr/IBM/cognos/analytics/ibm-jre/jre
On each application server card, verify that Java Home Directory is set to the IBM Semeru Runtimes that you installed on the application server.
Click Validate.
Click Install.

Tip: You can log out and close the browser window. The Install process continues to run. When you log in to the installation app again, the app shows the status of your deployment. You can also close the browser window during the Configure process.
Click Configure.

What to do next

Do the post-installation tasks. For more information, see Post-upgrade tasks.