This upgrade provides the following benefits:
- This upgrade package provides for additional flexibility by facilitating an upgrade to 7.9.0.0 (22.2) or 7.7.0.0 (22.1 or EP4) or 7.5.0.0 (EP3 and EP2) from any previous version between 7.1.3.3 – 7.7.0.0.
- The 7.2.2.0 and 7.5.0.0 incremental database scripts include operations that rebuild the IN_DOC table and its indexes and constraints. These operations are time consuming and result in an extended downtime for larger databases. This upgrade package provides a means for accomplishing these lengthy operations during uptime in the days or hours leading up to the downtime and results in a much shorter downtime event.
- This upgrade package provides you with more control with more control over incrementally completing the uptime steps over short periods of time by providing the MAX_MINUTES parameter. This parameter helps limit the scope per execution of the uptime steps by defining an end time that prevents new tasks from starting.
- This upgrade package provides you with more control over database upgrade operations by surfacing parameters such as tablespace names and degree of parallelism (DOP) for both uptime and downtime operations.