Updating your development environment

You must add the WLP_USER_DIR variable and then use Installation Manager to install Decision Server Insights V8.8 on the same computer as your current version. Run a script to migrate your existing servers.

About this task

If you want to update a server that you customized in a previous version, do not uninstall this version. You must make a copy of the usr directory within your existing installation, so that you can use it in your new installation of Decision Server Insights V8.8. Use the WLP_USER_DIR variable to locate the directory for your new installation.

Note:

If you do not want to set the WLP_USER_DIR environment variable, you can set the external location for WLP_USER_DIR by editing the server.env file in <InstallDirV88>/runtime/wlp/etc.

You can then run the migration script to modify the server.xml, objectgrid.xml, and objectGridDeployment.xml files. Solutions from previous versions must be migrated and redeployed.

Procedure

  1. Copy the existing <InstallDirV871>/runtime/wlp/usr directory to a new location and set the WLP_USER_DIR environment variable to that path.
  2. Install the new development environment. Follow the instructions in Installing Decision Server Advanced components.
  3. Run the migration script in the new installation to update the server configuration files.

    • <InstallDirV88>/runtime/ia/bin/migrateConfig.bat on Windows

    • <InstallDirV88>/runtime/ia/bin/migrateConfig on Linux

    The script updates the objectgrid.xml and objectGridDeployment.xml files and removes the old solution references from the server.xml files.

What to do next

When the development environment is updated, you can migrate your solutions.
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Parent topic: Migrating and updating Decision Server Insights