Preparing to Update the Installation
To prepare for the update, read and understand the updates contained in the release and determine how they will affect your systems. This includes not only what steps must be performed to install the updates, but how the updates may affect configurations, site-modified files, and customizations as well as end users.
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Windchill 13.0.2.0 release onwards, no legacy change link data is allowed. Before performing PSI update, it is mandatory to run Flexible change converter utility and set system to flexible mode on the source windchill setup. This is required to convert the legacy links into the flexible links as no legacy change link data are allowed. With the PSI update, since the codebase is updated to 13.0.2.0 release and the utility cannot be run on 13.0.2.0 release onwards, make sure to take backup of the source Windchill codebase.
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Enabling New BOM Reports
When you update to Windchill 13.1.1.0, by default, the new Apache configurations required to enable the new BOM Reports UI is not available. To enable the new configurations, you can do one of the following:
• During update, clear the selection Preserve HTTP Server configuration files on the Define Settings page of the PSI.
• After the update, manually apply the required configurations by adding the following entries to the HTTPServer\conf\conf.d\30-app-Windchill-AJP.conf file as seen here:
JkMount /Windchill/ui ajpWorker
JkMount /Windchill/ui/* ajpWorker
JkMount /Windchill/ui/* ajpWorker
Update information is located in the following places:
Maintenance Release Documents
• Update Advisor Tool—For a list of the customer SPRs fixed in this maintenance release, use the Update Advisor tool, available here: http://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/update_advisor/update_advisor.jsp
• Windchill Maintenance Read This First—Identifies the manual installation instructions to complete each maintenance release.
• Installation instructions for the update are described in Launching the PTC Solution Installer (PSI) -- provides the details for installing the updates that are in the maintenance release or service pack.
Major Release Documents
• Windchill Read This First—Identifies the manual installation instructions to complete the point release that did not make final documentation. This also identifies new features that are a part of the point release.
• Installation instructions for the update are as described in Updating an Existing Installation—Provides the details for installing the updates that are in the point release.
Maintenance updates are cumulative. This means that once a correction has been delivered in one version of the update, it will be included in all future versions of the Windchill Service Pack for that release. (Each version of the Windchill Service Pack is identified with a different datecode).
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Before attempting to access any part of the Windchill system ensure that all installation procedures have been completed.
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