App upgrade 9.0 to 9.0.1 need help

If you have customized a base form, rather than cloning it, then yes, the upgrade will likely be painful. You need to take a systematic inventory of what is custom, why it is custom, etc... The goal is to make your customizations as non-intrusive as possible, eliminating unnecessary ones, moving some to user exits and auxiliary tables, and where possible, just forging them. Then build a new 901 standard product line, and re-apply any remaining customizations.

Did you upgrade from 8 to 9? If so there might be some planning documents that can help minimize the work load. The problem you are running into is common and why we try to stay away from massive numbers of customizations.

Thanks for replies,
We are upgrading 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 the customization means (we have added the default values in the form field via designer, and added some url via java scripts, customized printer settings like that) and we also have some custom tables and procedures in Productline Schema in the oracle database. will the dbreorg delete those tables and additionally created objects from the productline schema?

for example for Check printing we did code change to print the pre-printed check and same to LPO printing, will those get affect.

Regs,
Chitta

Can any one help us?

Chitta,

If I were you, I would divide what you are trying to do in two phases. It's safer and less painful to troublehshoot if something goes wrong.

I ) upgrade environment from 9.0.1.2 to 9.0.1.6 <--- should be relatively easy. (WAS6 - WAS7, TDS, check jdk, netexpress, and database client compatibility)

II ) upgrade app from 9.0.0.x to 9.0.1.x, you will need to run data promotion package. I suggest doing it on a TEST prodline and see what customizations are broken and document all the fixes. Then you can start testing in the 9.0.1.x TEST prodline.

Thanks Jimmy,
We are also planning the same, however, i have concerns that we did 4gl program change, is that will also get change?, in case if those got overridden then how to restore, Pls suggest your inputs. and is there any way to find out the modified form in lawson?

Regs,
Chitta

What platform are you on? UNIX? Windows?

When you apply the patch in preview mode you will get a preview.log in the $LAWDIR/$PL/Admin/ directory.  An "M" will be put next to any program that has been modified.

We did the migration it went fine but I am not able to see th modification on PO printing which we customaized based on pre-printed po's. now am not able to get as designed, how can i retrivew those settings, however we and another PDL which is working fine. is ther any way to copy those to migrated PDL?

Its on HP UNIX 11.23