OpenEdge Getting Started:<br />Installation and Configuration Saving an existing OpenEdge or Progress installation in Windows-based platforms

If you have an existing OpenEdge or Progress installation, you might want to save certain pieces of it to make configuring your new installation simpler. If you want to continue using any templates, customized procedure or code files, a progress.ini file, you must copy them to another location before you begin a new installation.

If you have any templates that you want to continue using, copy them to another location before installing OpenEdge. If you have information in a progress.ini file that you want to continue using, copy the current progress.ini file to a directory other than where you are installing OpenEdge.

If you have any customized procedure or code files in the directory where you are installing OpenEdge, copy them into a different directory.

For more information on saving previous versions of your progress.ini, customized procedures, or code files, see the "Performing an OpenEdge Installation in Windows" section.

If you have OpenEdge installed and the PROMSGS environment variable is set on the Environment tab of the System settings in the Windows 2000 Control Panel, you must remove the PROMSGS environment variable before installing OpenEdge. If PROMSGS points to an old or nonexistent PROMSGS file, the InstallShield utility will not write all the necessary data to the Windows registry.

Caution: If you do not perform Step 3 as described if you current installation meets the criteria defined. you will have unpredictable and undesirable results.

Truncate the before-image (.bi) file using the PROUTIL TRUNCATE BI utility and back up your existing database using the PROBKUP utility. For more information on these utilities, see OpenEdge Data Management: Database Administration .

Caution: OpenEdge requires that your databases be converted to a multi-volume structure. If you were using single-volume databases with Progress Version 8 or Version 9, you must convert your OpenEdge databases to a multi-volume structure before converting the databases to OpenEdge. (Note that you must truncate your BI file before you convert it. If you plan to replace your current Progress Version files with OpenEdge 10, complete this step before you perform the installation to avoid erasing your current Progress Version files.

This conversion task involves many steps and requires that you plan each of them. Reference these resources to plan the steps: OpenEdge database doc, appropriate white papers available on the Progress Web site: http://www.progress.com , the Knowledge Center: http://www.progress.com/support/resources/knowledge_center/index.ssp and the Progress Software Developers Network (PSDN): http://psdn.progress.com/index.ssp. Progress Technical Support is also available.

Existing JavaSoft (InstallShield) JDK

If the required version of the Java Soft (InstallShield) JDK has been installed on your system prior to the OpenEdge Release 10.1A installation and you want to use this pre-existing JDK utility, you can. However, you must first complete the OpenEdge installation and then, as a postinstallation task, edit files tailored by the install to ensure that they point to this pre-existing JDK. Contact Progress Technical Support for assistance to perform this task.

OpenEdge automatic save of Properties files

OpenEdge automatically makes copies of your ubroker.properties, conmgr.properties, and proxygen.preferences files and places them in another directory, *.sav. The new installation automatically upgrades the files in the install-path\properties directory. However, after you have finished your new installation, you must replace the newly installed versions of these files with these copies. When you start the AdminServer, your older files will be updated to match the current standards for these files. For information about the procedure to uninstall an existing OpenEdge product and instantiating the properties files, see Chapter 5, " Performing an OpenEdge Installation on UNIX."

When you uninstall an existing OpenEdge product, the process copies ubroker.properties, conmgr.properties, and proxygen.preferences, the three files in the install-path\properties directory, to \%TEMP%. After installing a new OpenEdge product, you can manually copy back the files from \%TEMP%.