Thread: Upgrade 6.0 to 6.1 or 6.2

I am just beginning the upgrading process for our 6.0.2 system. I was wondering if anyone has an opinion as to whether I should go to 6.1 or skip to 6.2? I would appreciate any comments.

Thanks,
Donna

it's hard to decide.... I do not know all the new bugs that come with 6.2

... you could as well to stay on 6.0.2 and only performing the server upgrade - which means you can use the SC6.1 server and client (and web client)....
this solved a lot problems of an SC6.0 customer...

... but it depends on the functionality you want to take advantage of in SC6.1


Lars

Thank you both for your feedback. Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by outlance

it's hard to decide.... I do not know all the new bugs that come with 6.2
Lars

Do you have now more experiences with the 6.2 bugs ???

I was told 6.2.5 will be released within a month or so. We are waiting for some SCRs to be released in 6.2.6 later this sumer. There are some pretty important fixes that have been put out so far so I have to agree with tommy. From what I hear you will need to be at lease SC6.2 to upgrade to Service Manager 7.1. I recommend reading the release notes for each release from 6.0.2 to 6.2.4.2.

6.1.x.x to 6.2.x.x includes application upgrade (which is optional btw)

Tommy what do you mean by "(which is optional btw)".

Are you saying I can go to 6.2.x.x binary only with very few changes to our 6.1.5 system? This would allow us to upgrade our DB2 version 8 to DB2 version 9.x. Is there many issues with remaining like this for a while?

cjg

Be aware that 6.2 is a complete rewrite of the server. 6.2 should have been titled 7.0. There changes 6.1->6.2 were much more significant then 6.2->SM 7.00