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

[Quoted] You can find PeopleSoft discussion sites (functional & technical) at: www.peoplesoftfans.com
www.ps-users.com

Also, you can find PS/SQR/Oracle related issues at: www.sqrug.com

hth,
John Verkler

john hayes wrote:

> 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 Thu Jan 07 1999 - 00:00:00 CET