Speed II Upgrade Instructions 6.x to 7.3

Introduction

This document is intended to assist users of SPEED II Release 6 (including 06.00.00 through 06.01.07) to upgrade to Release 7.3.

Compatibility

Release 6 systems can be upgraded to Release 7 by running the conversion program described below. All existing applications will be completely compatible with Release 7. Release 5 applications will have to be converted to Release 6 by installing Release 6 and following the Release 5 to 6 upgrade instructions.

Numerous fields have been added to the Installation Configuration files. All of these fields will be set to default values during the conversion process. After conversion, verify the values in your Installation Control files. The fields that may require the most manual changes are those associated with printing.

If you are upgrading a large system to Release 7, it is possible to have both Release 6 and Release 7 running at the same time, but we recommend that you avoid doing this unless absolutely necessary. If you choose to run 6 and 7 concurrently, the following restrictions apply:

Upgrading Release 6 to Release 7:

The following steps are required to perform this conversion successfully. A WANG VS System Security Administrator must perform the conversion to ensure that file access violations will not cause the conversion to cancel. Do not run the conversion program without first making a backup.

If the field is set to 'Y', then SPEED II will act as it did in Release 7.0. If set to 'N', then it will treat the character as an underlined character 00-1F, which is how Release 6.x and below worked.

This new field was added as part of the fix for ECR 3820. International sites will probably want to set this field to 'N'. Remember that changes to values in Installation Configuration do not take effect until SPEED II is restarted.

If your site uses any special security classes or you have set priorities on the different function processors, you will need to make these changes again. If you have any Rights programs, you will need to recreate them under Release 7 and then reassign the special security privileges to them.

Design files which have been converted to Release 7 (or applications which have been developed using Release 7) can be downgraded to Release 6 by using the Restructure Files selection in Design File Management. SPEED II will not allow you to enter Application Design with design files in the wrong format. If you want to downgrade you must use EZPATCH (in library '$') to change the 00000000 file in the library '$$vvaaa1' (where vv = version and aaa = application id). You need to change the '7' at position 4 to a '6'.

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