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Summary: information you need to read and actions you need to complete before starting the CAST AIP upgrade process.

Ensure you read and check the following information:

• New in this release
• Resolved issues in this release

Please also check the same information in any major, minor or Service Pack release in between (i.e. when upgrading from CAST AIP 8.1.x to CAST AIP 8.3.x, you should check all releases in between).

• CAST highly recommends that you use the CAST Storage Service to host your CAST Analysis/Dashboard/Management Service schemas in CAST AIP 8.3.x as it is the "preferred" storage host. See Migrating CAST AIP schemas from Oracle Server and Microsoft SQL Server for more information.
• CAST has introduced CAST Storage Service 3 (based on Postgres 9.6.x) and recommends that you use it with new and existing Applications in CAST AIP 8.3.x. See CAST Storage Service - Upgrading to version 3.x.x for more information about upgrading to CSS3 (this should be done before you embark on the CAST AIP upgrade process).

CAST AIP 8.3.x is a 64-bit compliant application, therefore you must only use a supported 64-bit Operating System to host CAST AIP. Please also take into account the following information:

• The Visual Basic analyzer is delivered (in this release) as a 32-bit "application". Please read the section Visual Basic analyzer and 64-bit compatibility in Visual Basic - Required third-party software.

If you are actively using custom extensions (i.e. any extension not officially provided by CAST) and wish to upgrade to the current release of CAST AIP, then CAST highly recommends that you export your current Assessment Model to file (use the File > Export file option in the CAST Management Studio) before you begin the upgrade procedure. If necessary this Assessment Model can used in a comparison process at the end of the upgrade procedure.

If you have installed legacy custom Universal Analyzer (UA) packages using the <all users dir> option under the Manage Extensions option in CAST Server Manager, then you should consider the following:

CAST highly recommends that before you start the upgrade process you:

• convert these custom legacy Universal Analyzer packages to the current "extension" format (see Scenario 3 - You want to create a new custom extension or modify an existing custom extension)
• download and install the newly converted extensions as part of upgrade process (see Action: download and install the new release of CAST AIP below)
• ensure the <all users dir> option is set to "Do Not Install" under the Manage Extensions option in CAST Server Manager (this is its default position, but please check this):

If this process is not possible before you upgrade, then please proceed as follows:

• copy the custom legacy Universal Analyzer packages from <CAST_ALL_USERS_PATH for version before upgrade>\configuration\languages to <CAST_ALL_USERS_PATH for new release>\configuration\languages where <CAST_ALL_USERS_PATH> is the value defined in the CastGlobalSettings.ini file (the default value is %PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\CAST\<version>).
• ensure the <all users dir> option is set to "8.3.0" under the Manage Extensions option in CAST Server Manager to ensure the language packs are taken into account during the upgrade (the <all users dir> option will only be visible if custom legacy Universal Analyzer language packs exist in <CAST_ALL_USERS_PATH>)

If you are actively using a very old and unsupported custom Universal Analyzer language pack called "SQL Script" in your CAST AIP schemas, you must ensure that you perform the workaround described here BEFORE you being the upgrade process. This old Universal Analyzer language pack causes a conflict with the SQL Analyzer shipped by default with CAST AIP and will prevent the upgrade from completing.

To determine if you need to apply the workaround, run following query against your Management Service schema. When it returns a line, this old "SQL Script" language pack is installed.

select * from Cat where IdCat = 2361000

CAST Transaction Configuration Center - Impact Factor configuration

In CAST AIP ≥ 8.1.x the stored procedures used to configure Impact Factor (see the CAST Transaction Configuration product help for more information) for Transactional Functions are now named as follows:

• TCC_EFP_USR_IF_DELETED_RULE --> EFP_USR_IF_DEL_TF_RULE
• TCC_EFP_USR_IF_MODIFIED_RULE --> EFP_USR_IF_MOD_TF_RULE
• TCC_EFP_USR_IF_ADDED_RULE --> EFP_USR_IF_ADD_TF_RULE

This is so that their names are in-line with the stored procedures added in CAST AIP 8.1.x for configuring Impact Factor for Data Functions. By default and to avoid a situation where configurations from CAST AIP 8.0.x are lost following an upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.x, CAST has included a call to the legacy CAST AIP 8.0.x stored procedures in the stored procedures in CAST AIP 8.3.x, for example:

• EFP_USR_IF_DEL_TF_RULE will call in its code the existing stored procedure from CAST 8.0.x: TCC_EFP_USR_IF_DELETED_RULE

Despite the automated handling of this during the upgrade process, CAST highly recommends that you take a copy of the scripts in the legacy stored procedures so that you can start using them in CAST AIP 8.3.x in the new stored procedures.

When working with an Oracle Server as the host for the CAST schemas, you must ensure that you are NOT connecting to the Management, Analysis, Dashboard or Measurement Services using the Oracle "system" user. The upgrade process will fail if this is the case. To check:

• Launch the CAST Management Studio
• In the CAST-MS Database connections manager dialog box (displayed during the launch), change the user used to connect the Management Service (MNGT) from SYSTEM to the MNGT schema user:

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• Once connected, update all Analysis and Dashboard Services to change the respective Analysis Service/Dashboard Service schemas user - you will need to enable the Credentials option in the respective Analysis /Dashboard Service editors to override the connection defined automatically that is using the "SYSTEM" user. The example below is for a Dashboard Service:

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What to do if you do not want to upgrade all Applications in a given CAST AIC Portal/Delivery folder at the same time

Because the Delivery folder is "locked" to a specific release of CAST AIP, when it is upgraded to the new release of CAST AIP, any Management Service schemas (and Applications managed in them) that have not themselves been selected for upgrade will no longer be permitted to use the Delivery folder and you will receive the following error in the CAST Management Studio when trying to work with the Applications that have not been upgraded:

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If you do not want to upgrade ALL your Management Services and their Applications to the new release of CAST AIP, you have two options:

1. You can proceed with the upgrade anyway and ensure that you follow the instructions at the very end of this documentation to comment out any non-upgraded Applications from the index.xml file in the data folder at the root of the Delivery folder (see Deploy the CAST web applications)
2. You can create two CAST AIC Portal and two Delivery folders, each containing the Applications you require depending on whether they need to be upgraded to the new release of CAST AIP or not. Instructions for this are displayed below:

Create two CAST AIC Portal and two Delivery folders

In this scenario, we are migrating from CAST AIP 8.1.x to CAST AIP 8.3.x as an example (but the same applies when updating between other supported paths):

• Ensure that the existing 8.1.x CAST AIC Portal is not running
  
• Deploy a new CAST AIC Portal for CAST AIP 8.3.x (see Installing and configuring the CAST AIC Portal) alongside the existing 8.1.x CAST AIC Portal - ensure you use the CAST-AICP.war file from the new release of CAST AIP.
• Configure a new empty Delivery folder for CAST AIP 8.3.x in the web.xml file of the CAST AIC Portal for CAST AIP 8.3.x
• Stop the new CAST AIC Portal for CAST AIP 8.3.x
• Copy the "plugins" folder from the existing 8.1.x Delivery folder and paste it into the new 8.3.x Delivery folder - overwriting the "plugins" folder.
• Copy the "data\index.xml" file from the existing 8.1.x Delivery folder and paste it into the "data" folder in the new 8.3.x Delivery folder - there should be no files present in the "data" folder in the new Delivery folder
• Edit the "data\index.xml" file (with a text editor) from the existing 8.1.x Delivery folder to remove references to any Applications you would like to upgrade to the new release of CAST AIP - this is a fairly simple process whereby you need to remove any entry starting <entry key="<GUID-of-your-Application. There will be around 10 entries for each Application. Save any changes.
• Edit the "data\index.xml" file (with a text editor) from the new 8.3.x Delivery folder to remove references to any Applications you do not want to upgrade to the new release of CAST AIP - this is a fairly simple process whereby you need to remove any entry starting <entry key="<GUID-of-your-Application. There will be around 10 entries for each Application. Save any changes.
• Cut and paste any Applications in the "data" folder from the existing 8.1.x Delivery folder to the "data" folder in the new 8.3.x Delivery folder that you would like to upgrade to the new version of CAST AIP. An Application consists of a folder named <GUID> and a file named <GUID>.entity.xml - where GUID corresponds to the Application:

• Copy the "localpswds.dat" file in the "data" folder from the existing 8.1.x Delivery folder to the "data" folder in the new 8.3.x Delivery folder
• Open the CAST Management Studio from the existing 8.1.x CAST AIP and connect to ALL Management Service schemas that you intend to upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.x. Change the location of the "Source Code Delivery Folder" in Window > Preferences so that it corresponds to the location of the new Delivery folder in CAST AIP 8.3.x:

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• Finally you will end up with:
  • one 8.1.x Delivery folder containing only the Applications you want to retain on CAST AIP 8.1.x
  • one 8.3.x Delivery folder containing only the Applications you want to upgrade to CAST AIP 8.3.x

During the upgrade process using CAST Server Manager (see Step by step upgrade process), you will be asked to choose an option with regard to the handling of the CAST AIP Assessment Model:

Please ensure that you decide now, based on the information below, what strategy you will use during the upgrade:

As part of CAST's drive to improve and speed up the frequency of software releases, a process of "externalizing" the source code delivery and analysis capabilities of CAST AIP has begun in CAST AIP 8.3.x. To this end various official CAST AIP extensions are shipped with CAST AIP 8.3.x and are installed automatically as part of the upgrade process and also when installing new CAST AIP "triplets". Please see Technology coverage changes in CAST AIP 8.3.x for more information.

CAST has provided support for analyzing both IBM DB2 UDB and IBM DB2 z/OS via its DB2 Analyzer (provided out-of-the-box in CAST AIP ≤ 8.2.x) for some time now. This "legacy" analyzer requires the following:

• For IBM DB2 UDB you must manually define a connection to the DB2 UDB instance - this instance must be available during the analysis process in the CAST Management Studio - this is known as an "online" analysis. In addition, a DB2 client layer must be installed on the workstation on which the CAST Management Studio is being run from.
• For IBM DB2 z/OS a standalone extractor based on JCL must be installed on the target z/OS execution environment and then run to output data that the DB2 Analyzer can handle.

These requirements can sometimes present significant difficulties for the process of on-boarding an IBM DB2 application into CAST AIP. As a direct result of this and wanting to simplify the approach, CAST has developed the SQL Analyzer as a standalone extension. The extension analyzes DDL, DML and SQL exports and (in version ≥ 2.0) supports the analysis of IBM DB2. The analysis is therefore "offline" (no connection to a live database is required).

From CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.x, the legacy DB2 Analyzer (provided out-of-the-box in CAST AIP) is no longer available, therefore for upgrades to CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.x, existing IBM DB2 UDB and IBM DB2 z/OS analyses will still function and will not block the post-upgrade consistency snapshot, however, it will not be possible to package new source code in existing or new packages, therefore CAST recommends that you transition to the SQL Analyzer version ≥ 2.0 BEFORE you start the process of upgrading to CAST AIP 8.3.x. See How to transition from the CAST AIP DB2 Analyzer to the SQL Analyzer extension.

CAST has provided support for analyzing SAP BusinessObjects source code via its BO Analyzer (provided out-of-the-box in CAST AIP ≤ 8.2.x) for some time now. This "legacy" analyzer requires the following:

• SAP BusinessObjects (the BO Designer module) must be installed on the workstation on which the CAST Management Studio is being run from.
• you must manually define a connection to the SAP BusinessObjects instance on which your Universe files are used - this instance must be available during the analysis process in the CAST Management Studio - this is known as an "online" analysis.

These requirements can sometimes present significant difficulties for the process of on-boarding a SAP BusinessObjects application into CAST AIP. As a direct result of this and wanting to simplify the approach, CAST has developed the SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer as a standalone extension. The extension (introduced in CAST AIP 8.2.5) provides a means to analyze SAP BusinessObjects source code "offline", i.e. no connection to the SAP BusinessObjects instance is required. In addition there is no longer any requirement to have BusinessObjects (the BO Designer module) installed on the workstation on which the CAST Management Studio is being run from.

From CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.x, the legacy BO Analyzer (provided out-of-the-box in CAST AIP) is no longer available, therefore:

• to analyze new SAP BusinessObjects applications, you must use the SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer (together with the CAST SAP BusinessObjects Extractor - not delivered with CAST AIP) which is delivered and installed automatically with CAST AIP 8.3.x with new CAST AIP triplets and as part of an upgrade.
• for upgrades to CAST AIP ≥ 8.3.x, existing SAP BusinessObjects analyses will no longer function and will block the post-upgrade consistency snapshot. As such, CAST recommends that you transition to the SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer AFTER an upgrade, but BEFORE you generate a post-upgrade consistency snapshot (see Switching from legacy to new delivery/analysis method in SAP BusinessObjects Analyzer).

Generate a snapshot before you start the upgrade process. This allows you to compare the pre and post upgrade results, as discussed in Changes in results post upgrade.

Before starting the upgrade process, CAST strongly recommends that any existing analysis and result data from previous releases of CAST AIP is backed up. You should backup the following items as a basic minimum so that the existing AIP environment can be restored in case an error occurs during the upgrade process.

Download and install the new release of CAST AIP, either on the same workstation as the existing release of CAST AIP, or on a different workstation where no previous release of CAST AIP exists. 

Download any new versions of existing extensions or new extensions that may be useful for your Application on to the workstation you will be running the upgrade from, as discussed in Download an extension. This is not necessary if a more recent version of an installed extension is shipped with CAST AIP (see Technology coverage changes in CAST AIP 8.3.x for more information).

Before beginning the update process, please ensure that you have carried out all of the following tasks:

	Database access exclusivity	Ensure that you have exclusive access to the schemas you want to upgrade - i.e. that the schema is not being used by any other user, application (such as the CAST Management Studio) or web portal (such as the CAST Application Analysis/Engineering Dashboards).
	Check free RAM memory	Before starting this step, please ensure that you have at least 1GB of free RAM memory on your workstation. If you do not have sufficient free RAM memory, there is a risk that some of the upgrade actions may fail.
	Stop the CAST AIC Portal on the application server	Ensure that you STOP the existing deployment of the CAST AIC Portal (using the application server management system) before starting the upgrade process.
	Ensure your custom and official CAST AIP extensions are compatible (optional)	If you have custom or official CAST AIP extensions installed in the current release of CAST AIP, you must ensure they are compatible with the new release of CAST AIP you are upgrading to.
	Ensure that your Delivery folder is accessible and contains a version.xml	Ensure that your Delivery folder (as defined in the Management Service schemas that you want to upgrade) is accessible and contains a valid version.xml file.
	Ensure that all schemas are from the same release of CAST AIP	Ensure that all CAST AIP schemas (Analysis/Dashboard Service schemas) involved in the upgrade are installed with the same release of CAST AIP as the selected Management Service schemas.
	Application / Snapshot in the Management Service schema	Ensure that at least one Application with at least one Snapshot exists in the Management Service schema you want to upgrade.