Upgrading from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0)
Overview
The recommendations in this chapter explain how to upgrade an OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) installation and have two objectives:
• To ensure that your upgrade is successful the first time
• To minimize time and effort required to upgrade
Upgrading OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) to OpenROAD 5.1 is straightforward and inexpensive, provided the upgrade is properly prepared for and carefully executed. No code changes should be required to perform the upgrade.
Upgrading from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) directly to OpenROAD 6.2 is not recommended because the process is irreversible. To illustrate, consider the following procedure:
1. Export an application from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0).
2. Import the application into OpenROAD 6.2.
3. Export the application from OpenROAD 6.2.
4. Import the application back into OpenROAD 2006 (5.0).
The application is unintentionally corrupted by this process. For example, all button labels in the application are now missing. Unless a backup of the original OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) exported application was preserved before importing it into OpenROAD 6.2, the changes are irretrievably lost. This is why Actian Corporation strongly recommends that you upgrade OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) applications to OpenROAD 5.1 as an intermediate step before moving the applications to OpenROAD 6.2. Then the following procedure can be performed without corrupting the application:
1. Export an application from OpenROAD 5.1 to XML.
2. Import the application into OpenROAD 6.2 from XML.
3. Export the application from OpenROAD 6.2 to XML.
4. Import the application into OpenROAD 5.1 from XML.
Note: To preserve the integrity of the application through the export and import process, you must export and import using XML, a feature introduced in OpenROAD 5.1. If you use the original proprietary import/export technique to move an application from OpenROAD 5.1 through OpenROAD 6.2 and then back to OpenROAD 5.1, the application will be corrupted as mentioned in the first procedure. For more information, see "XML Import and Export" in the Workbench User Guide.
This chapter focuses on upgrading from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) to OpenROAD 5.1. If your intent is to ultimately move from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) to OpenROAD 6.2, you should break the upgrade process into two parts:
• Part 1: Upgrade from OpenROAD 2006 (5.0) to OpenROAD 5.1 (this chapter).