Pre-upgrade tasks for clients

Before you upgrade your clients, you should complete certain tasks to help ensure that your upgrade is successful.

Prepare for the upgrade of your clients by performing the following tasks:

1. Review the upgrade essentials for clients to determine which factors might impact your client upgrade.

   Refer to Upgrade essentials for clients.

2. Review the supported and non-supported client configurations.
3. Plan your upgrade strategy.

   Refer to Planning your DB2 environment upgrade.

   For example, you might need to upgrade your DB2 server first, then your clients.
4. Optional: Upgrade your DB2 servers.

   Refer to DB2 servers upgrade.

5. Back up your client configuration information.

   Refer to Backing up client configuration information.

6. Optional: Upgrade your clients in a test environment to identify upgrade issues and to verify that applications, scripts, tools and routines work as expected before upgrading your production environment.

   Refer to Upgrading clients in a test environment.