Upgrade planning depends on the details of your existing
installation. The version of origin and platform choices all influence
the upgrade path of your existing components.
Starting with version 5.2, Content Engine and Process Engine have been combined into
the Content Platform Engine. The Content Platform Engine server is installed
from a single installation program, and configured and deployed as
a single application server instance.
The versions of the components that can be upgraded vary by component.
Table 1. Versions of components that can be
upgraded| Component |
Versions of components that can be upgraded
to FileNet® P8 5.2 |
|---|
| Content Engine |
4.5.0, 4.5.1, 5.0.0, or 5.1.0 |
| Process Engine |
4.5.0, 4.5.1, or 5.0.0 |
| Application Engine |
4.0.1 or 4.0.2 |
| IBM® Content
Search Services |
5.0 or 5.1 |
| IBM Legacy
Content Search Engine |
If you are running IBM Legacy
Content Search Engine and you want your system
to retain the ability to do content-based searches immediately after
the upgrade of the system is complete, you cannot upgrade directly
from version 4.5 to version 5.2 software. You must first upgrade FileNet P8 to version 5.1 and complete
the migration from IBM Legacy
Content Search Engine to IBM Content
Search Services. You can then upgrade
from version 5.1 to 5.2. |
Important: If the system you are upgrading is running WebSphere® version 6.1, you must do
an upgrade with a migration. The new application server instance must
be deployed on at least version 7 of WebSphere.
Content Engine,
Process Engine, and the following associated
components must be upgraded together:
- Application Engine and depending
on which version of Application Engine you
are upgrading from, the upgrade could be only the installation of
a fix pack.
- IBM FileNet Workplace XT
- IBM Content
Search Services
- Rendition Engine
- IBM FileNet Content Federation Services
- IBM FileNet Case Analyzer and IBM FileNet Process Simulator can be upgraded at the
same time if you need full access to all case and simulation data
immediately after the upgrade. However, you could upgrade these components
at a later time, such as the following weekend. All backlogged data
will be processed after those upgrades are complete. See the IBM FileNet Case Analyzer and IBM FileNet Process Simulator documentation for information
on upgrading those components.
See the IBM FileNet P8 Hardware and Software
Requirements for a list of product-component versions from
which you can start an upgrade. Also
see the FileNet P8
Fix Pack Compatibility Matrices.
