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For upgrade of an IOA environment, BMC recommends using the proper ICE facilities — either the Upgrade in Place process or the Ad-hoc maintenance process. These upgrade methods are sufficient for an environment that was created using the ICE-based installation or cloning processes. However, if an IOA environment that you need to upgrade is non-SMP/E-managed and does not have ICE, these upgrade methods cannot be used. For such cases, you can use the Multisystem Upgrade process.
Use the Multisystem Upgrade process when all of the following conditions are met:
The Multisystem Upgrade process enables you to upgrade multiple slave IOA environments. After the master IOA environment is upgraded (using either the Upgrade in Place process or the Ad-hoc maintenance process), the Multisystem Upgrade process enables you to copy updated data sets and members to all slave IOA environments.
Before data sets can be copied to the slave IOA environments, their contents must be checked. Changed data sets, especially non-SMP/E-managed data sets, might contain hard-coded, installation-specific data (such as environment prefixes). Such data sets must be adjusted before they can be copied to slave IOA environments or shared between slave IOA environments. The Multisystem Upgrade process analyzes the software level of data sets and guides you through the necessary actions to take on the data sets.
The following topics further discuss the Multisystem Upgrade process:
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