MAXIMO Upgrade from 6 to 7

[vijet]

Hi All,

I am in the process of upgrading maximo from 6 to 7. I have downloaded the required software packages from IBM. But if i am not sure from where to start. I tried installing from the launchpad.exe application and proceeding with the same. But ended up on the error that my db version is not correct.

I would like to know if anybody has done the upgrade and if there is any help document which you guys would have had created apart from the IBM sites guides.. Any help is really appreciated...

Thanks
Vijet

[vijet]

Hi All
We are trying to update from MAXIMO 6 to 7 . As a first step we are running upgrade on a demo database (OOB supplied with MAXIMO 6 without any customization ), As a first step we upgraded to 6.2.8. The update went through fine and we ran updatedb after this to update database to 6.2.8.
Now when we run Integrity Checker from MAXIMO 7 we get error like

ERROR -- The Maximo definition of this column does not match the actual column: Thu Nov 10 17:14:12 PST 2011
ASSET.SOURCESYSID Maximo definition is ALN(10) Database column is VARCHAR2(40) Thu Nov 10 17:14:12 PST 2011
ERROR -- The Maximo definition of this column does not match the actual column: Thu Nov 10 17:14:12 PST 2011
ASSET.STATUS Maximo definition is ALN(20) Database column is VARCHAR2(80) Thu Nov 10 17:14:12 PST 2011

The point to be noted here is we are upgrading an OOB database and this error comes for almost all the out of box columns, looks like there is a difference between MAXIMO metadata and oracle metadata as you can see in the errors up each column is compared against multiple of 4 like ALN(10) to ALN(40) , ALN(20) to ALN(80).

Not sure if I missed something. Any advise direction will be helpfull.
Thanks in Advance.

[vijet]

Update on the issue.

Tried many ways of running integrity checker without installing MAXIMO 7 by exploding the installation package that was provided but could not succeed. Then contacted IBM for the issue and the resolution was that MAXIMO 7 should be installed and the integrity checker should be run from the correctly installed folder structure.

Did the same and got rid of the errors...!!

Thanks
Vijet

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