You can migrate from a previous version of IBM® Business Process Manager or WebSphere® Process Server,
or use the migration facilities provided by WebSphere Lombardi
Edition.
Supported migration sources
The following
product and version combinations are supported as sources for migration
to
IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1.
- IBM BPM
Advanced V7.5
or V7.5.1
- IBM BPM
Standard V7.5
or V7.5.1
- WebSphere Process
Server V7.0.0.x
or V6.2.x
- WebSphere Lombardi
Edition V7.x
- WebSphere Lombardi
Edition V6.x
- IBM Business Process Manager for z/OS® V7.5
- WebSphere Process
Server for z/OS V7.0 (all releases)
- WebSphere Process
Server for z/OS V6.2 (all releases)
- WebSphere Lombardi Edition V7.x
- WebSphere Lombardi Edition V6.x
For migrating from V8.0.1 to V8.0.1.1,
see Upgrading from IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 to IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1.x.
High-level steps
The general sequence of
events for migrating from an earlier version of the product to
V8.0.1 is similar
to the following sequence:
- Check that you have the required hardware and software. Depending
on your IBM Business Process Manager configuration,
visit:
- Select a migration method. See Migration methods.
- Test the migration procedure. Before performing the migration:
- Test your applications in a new environment.
- Test your migration procedure in a staging environment.
- Practice your rollback plan on a test system.
- Migrate. Use the migration procedures associated with the migration
method you choose to migrate your environment.
- Verify the migration. After performing the migration, use one
of the following methods to verify success, depending on which migration
method you used:
- If you used the artifact migration method, using IBM Integration
Designer to
import and update applications and workspaces developed using earlier
versions, verify that your applications work as expected.
- If you used the application migration method, redeploying your
applications from a production environment that is the source of the
migration to a parallel target production environment, verify that
your applications work as expected.
- If you used the runtime migration method, see Verifying migration.
- Roll back if necessary. If the migration was not successful, you
might need to roll back your environment and perform the migration
again. Use one of the following rollback methods, depending on which
migration method you used:
- If you used the artifact migration method, you might need to uninstall
and then re-import and re-migrate the applications and source artifacts
using Integration Designer.
- If you used the application migration method, you might need to
uninstall and then reinstall the applications.
- If you used the runtime migration method, see Rolling back your environment.