Upgrading to i2 Analyze 4.4.0
To upgrade a deployment of i2 Analyze, you must first install the latest version of the deployment toolkit. After you install the latest version, you can upgrade your deployment.
Before you upgrade your production deployment, use a pre-production or test environment to verify that you can complete the upgrade process successfully and that you are familiar with the procedure. After you test the upgrade process for your deployment, complete the upgrade in your production environment. If you do not have a pre-production or test environment, you can create one. For more information, see Creating a production deployment.
- If you are upgrading a deployment of i2 Analyze 4.3.3 or earlier that uses SQL Server for the Information Store database, you must install a later version of the ODBC Driver for SQL Server and sqlcmd utility. For more information, see Software prerequisites.
- Ensure that you back up your deployment before you complete an upgrade. For more information about backing up your deployment, see Backing up a deployment.
Depending on the scale and complexity of your data, changes of this nature can take time. You might want to plan your upgrade to take place in a period where there is usually no activity, and back up your system before proceeding.
If your deployment includes the ETL toolkit, you must upgrade the ETL toolkit to version 4.4.0 after you upgrade the rest of the deployment. For more information, see Upgrading the ETL toolkit.
After you upgrade, you might need to update the configuration of your deployment for any new or modified configuration settings. For more information about new and modified configuration settings, see Configuration and database changes.
When you start the server after you upgrade, extra processing of the data in the Information Store is completed after the upgrade. During this processing, you might not be able to ingest, update, and delete data in the Information Store. For more information, see Information Store processing after you upgrade i2 Analyze.