This roadmap contains general technical information and guidelines on how to make an installation of IFS Applications as well as component specific installations (gathered from component release notes).
Note: IFS Applications 10 only supports direct upgrades from IFS Applications 7.5 or later. Upgrades from earlier versions must be done in two steps. IFS Applications 10 does not support upgrades from application extensions.
This section describes important information that the installation project should be aware of before the installation starts. It is recommended to follow the links in order to get more information regarding each specific issue.
Make sure you only use software certificated by the Product Certification team. Certified Oracle version, Client Operations Systems etc can be found on the Supported Platforms (IFS internal) pages.
Depending on products to be installed, existing data volumes and number of licensed users, it is important size the hardware correctly. Read more on the Benchmarking pages (IFS internal), where sizing guides and other useful information is provided.
Regarding functional news and other useful information, please refer to the Product Release Notes in each Product. They are also posted here (IFS internal).
A number of Component changes that have been made in IFS Applications 10.
List of entity changes between IFS Application 9 and 10
A number of Database Objects and table columns have been made obsolete in IFS Applications 10. The following page provide more detailed information,
How to handle invalid database objects after upgrade or patching.
| Upgrade from | Upgrade to | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| IFS Applications version | Certified Oracle version(s) | IFS Applications 10 Certified Oracle version | Upgrade Steps |
| IFS Applications 7.5 | 10.2.0.x | 12.2 (or higher) |
1. Install Oracle 12c in a new Oracle home. |
| 11.1.0.7 | |||
| 11.2.0.x | |||
| IFS Applications 8 | 11.2.0.x | 12.2 (or higher) |
1. Install Oracle 12c in a new Oracle home. |
| 12.1.0.1.7 | |||
| 12.1.0.2 | |||
| IFS Applications 9 | 12.1.0.1.7 | 12.2 (or higher) |
1. Install Oracle 12c in a new Oracle home. |
| 12.1.0.2 | |||
Note:
a. If you are running a byte database (non-Unicode) today, you need to convert to Unicode database before you run the IFS upgrade.
In IFS Applications, some objects are placed in the other schemas than the application owner schema. This must be considered when a database is exported and imported, i.e. you cannot just export/import the application owner schema, then you will miss:
Some of these are re-created if you run the Prepare Database step, some other demand a full database deployment, whilst some other must be manually re-created. Only a full export/import, where only the internal Oracle schemas are excluded, is the guarantee to include all objects. However, after an import, the Oracle Advanced Queues tend to be disabled. If so, they must manually be enabled.
There are a lot of product specific considerations. Click the link below for details.