Well, I know it’s been a while since my last post. Sorry, but it sure has been a busy year for me as a Jazz Jumpstart team member. Last year at this time, I was busy testing the upgrade to CLM 2011 and helping our User Assistance team put out the best documentation possible. The Jazz Jumpstart team also released a great workshop to help folks learn how to upgrade to CLM 2011: https://jazz.net/library/article/662
So, what am I up to now? I’m busy testing and helping to document the upgrade to CLM 2012, of course. I started thinking that there are things CLM customers could be doing now to get ready to upgrade to CLM 2012. Why not blog about it? So here goes…..
Review the CLM 2012 System Requirements
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/CLMWorkbenchSystemRequirements
Review the upgrade process
The Jazz.net development wiki contains some drafts of the upgrade process. Review it to start getting familiar with the process. Remember that this is all pre-release and subject to change. The official upgrade process will be in the 4.0 infocenter.
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/CLM301x40UpgradeDistributed
Start preparing a test environment for upgrade testing
This is still a good idea even though the upgrade process this year is much easier. Here is a way to get started: Staging a test environment for the upgrade process
Once you have a test environment set up, try it out the process with one of the 4.0 release candidates: Download 4.0 RC3
Configure a data warehouse if you haven’t already
When you first upgraded to CLM 2011, you may have skipped configuring a DW. Plan to configure a DW so that you can begin taking advantage of the CLM reporting features. And, when you upgrade to CLM 2012, you will be able to avoid running JTS setup altogether. Read this topic for assistance: Configuring the DW after running JTS setup
Upgrade to the latest fixpack
Do some research on the IBM support portal pr the Jazz.net website and figure out if you should upgrade to the latest fixpack of the CLM applications you are running in your deployment. The latest fixpack is v3.0.1.3 for RTC, RQM and RRC. It’s easy to upgrade to the latest fixpack of CLM 2011. Read this topic for assistance: Upgrading to version 3.0.1 fixpack releases
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