Re: PeopleSoft: Upgrade 5.12 to 7.5 - anyone tried direct path???

Richard,

Thanks for your input. Actually, I did post to peoplesoft's "Customer Connection" discussion group - but it appears to be fairly dead. Although there are some postings there, responses are rare and long delayed....
I thought I'd see if the ole usenet still has any life. It does, moreso than peoplesoft's page - but not quite like it used to....

I already have peoplesoft's line on the issue - I just wanted to see what other users think.

I don't know why there is no PeopleSoft newsgroup. Pretty much all software is proprietary (Oracle for example...). Maybe we should create one.

Richard Flores wrote:
>
> You might post to the PeopleSoft support web site. It is used by PeopleSoft
> customers to exchange information among themselves. I don't remember the
> address, offhand, but as a customer, you should have been given a few
> accounts to the protected site.
>
> Though I have not done this particular upgrade, I would doubt that it could
> be done. As you know, there are dozens of scripts/programs used to upgrade
> the system. They each depend on the system being in a certain configuration
> and would probably break if something was out of synch.
>
> Actually, taking the two steps should not be too serious a problem. Just
> take them one after the other.
>
> Anyway, post to the PeopleSoft group. I'm sure you can get some more
> definitive answers to your question.
>
> Richard L. Flores
> john hayes wrote in message <368A8E88.2662_at_earthlink.net>...
> >Hi there. This is a PeopleSoft upgrade query. I don't seem to find any
> >specifically PeopleSoft newsgroups here - anyone know of one?
> >
> >Meanwhile, here's the question:
> >
> >We need to upgrade a 5.12 database to 7.5. I see that PS does not seem
> >to support a direct upgrade path for this, but rather suggests going
> >from
> >5.12 to 7.0, then 7.0 to 7.5.
> >
> >Of course, I would rather do this all in one shot. Has anyone tried
> >this?
> >I am assuming that it is unsupported because it has not been
> >done/certified
> >by PS, but I can't think of any reason why it could not be done. Can
> >anyone
> >tell me what problems I might expect if I try this?
> >
> >Also - if I do end up doing it in 2 steps, I see that PS supports 5.12
> >to 7.0
> >and (more recently) 5.12 to 7.01. Since I would be going on to 7.5
> >anyway,
> >does it make a difference? Would I need to use 5.12 to 7.0 or 5.12 to
> >7.01?
> >I am thinking I should use 5.12 to 7.0, since the next step seems to be
> >7.0
> >to 7.5.
> >
> >But, really - 5.12 to 7.5 would be much preferred....
> >
> >Thanks for any comments. Please email responses to:
> >
> >aikosys_at_earthlink.net
> >
> >John Hayes
> >
Received on Tue Jan 05 1999 - 00:00:00 CST