Upgrading Oracle databases

For Oracle, upgrade your existing schemas and data so that your databases work with the new version of IBM® Business Process Manager.

Figure 1. Sample environment after existing schemas and data are updated. The source environment is not running and the databases are not in use. The databases contain updated schemas and data. The target is not running but contains a deployment environment.

The details of the diagram are provided in the figure caption.

Run the DBUpgrade command to modify some of your existing data for use with IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have shut down the source environment before you proceed with the migration.

Important: You must upgrade your Oracle database to a supported version. If your Oracle database is at 9i or 10g, upgrade it to 11g before migration.

Verify that the users that are configured to access your Oracle databases have the necessary privileges to upgrade the databases. The following database privileges are needed to modify existing Oracle database schemas and data for use with IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.

The CONNECT, RESOURCE, DBA_TABLES, and SELECT privileges are required on the database level.
The upgrade process accesses system views. Grant the SELECT privilege to the user who performs the upgrade. These privileges are already granted to the public group by default; it is not necessary to grant them again unless they were revoked.
```
all_indexes
all_tables
USER_TAB_COLUMNS
all_objects
all_constraints
all_tab_columns
```

For a list of supported database versions, refer to the system requirements.

IBM Business Process Manager Advanced system requirements

Procedure

For each deployment environment that you are creating, complete the following steps:

Copy the upgrade SQL scripts that you generated by running the BPMGenerateUpgradeSchemaScripts utility from target_deployment_manager_profile/dbscripts/Upgrade to your database computer. See Generating SQL scripts for Oracle and configuring new database components for the list of scripts that you generated. Run the SQL scripts.
Run the SQL scripts. Use one of these methods to run the scripts:
- Run the SQL scripts using the upgradeSchema.sh file that was generated along with the SQL scripts.
- Run the SQL scripts directly using an SQL session.
To run the SQL scripts directly, run the scripts in the following sequence:
- Run all upgradeTablespac* scripts before you run any upgradeSchema* scripts.
- Run the upgradSchema_SchemaStatus.sql script before you run any other "upgradeSchema*" SQL scripts.
The options are embedded in the SQL scripts. Additional options are not required.

Note: If you had the Business Process Choreographer Reporting function configured, it was removed during runtime migration. However, the associated data was not automatically removed from the database. If you determine that you no longer need this data, run the dropSchema_Observer.sql script and then the dropTablespace_Observer.sql script using an SQL session with special configuration.

Note: If your source environment is V7.0.0.3 or V7.0.0.4 or later minor versions, two versions of upgrade schema scripts are generated for the BPC database. If you create a new Business Process Choreographer configuration with a newly created database, shared work items are enabled and used automatically. If you migrated your Business Process Choreographer configuration, using shared work items is optional. If you have enabled the "Shared Work Items" feature that was introduced in V7.0.0.3, you must remove those generated scripts with "700" in the file name before you run upgradeSchema.bat. If that is not the case, you must remove the script with "7003" in the file name.
For detailed information about shared work items, refer to Shared work items.

You might see warning messages when you run the scripts to upgrade the Business Space database telling you that the result of a query is an empty table or that no row was found for FETCH, UPDATE or DELETE. These messages can safely be ignored.
To upgrade the databases to V8.5, run the DBUpgrade utility.
Important: Ensure that your deployment manager and all the managed nodes in the source environment have been stopped before running this utility.
```
BPM_home/bin/DBUpgrade.sh -propertiesFile migration_properties_file -backupFolder snapshot_folder
```
where:
- migration_properties_file is the full path to the migration properties file in which you specified the configuration information for the target environment. Ensure that the value of the target.config.property.file property is set to the full path of the configuration properties file that you used to create your target environment. You must also set the value of profile.name.
- snapshot_folder is the directory that contains the information that was extracted from the source environment
For example:
```
BPM_home/bin/DBUpgrade.sh -propertiesFile /opt/BPM85/util/migration/resources/migration.properties -backupFolder /tmp/snapshot
```

What to do next

You might see warning messages similar to the following in the upgrade log: Couldn't load Resource META-INF*****. These messages can safely be ignored.