Banner General Upgrade Guide 8.11
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Banner General Upgrade Guide Release 8.11 March 2019 Banner®, Colleague®, Luminis® and Datatel® are trademarks of Ellucian or its affiliates and are registered in the U.S. and other countries. Ellucian™, PowerCampus™, Advance™, Degree Works™, fsaATLAS™, Course Signals™, SmartCall™, Recruiter™, and ILP™ are trademarks of Ellucian Company L.P. or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. ©2019 Ellucian Company L.P. and its affiliates. The unauthorized possession, use, reproduction, distribution, display or disclosure of this material or the information contained herein is prohibited. Contains confidential and proprietary information of Ellucian and its subsidiaries. Use of these materials is limited to Ellucian licensees, and is subject to the terms and conditions of one or more written license agreements between Ellucian and the licensee in question. In preparing and providing this publication, Ellucian is not rendering legal, accounting, or other similar professional services. Ellucian makes no claims that an institution's use of this publication or the software for which it is provided will guarantee compliance with applicable federal or state laws, rules, or regulations. Each organization should seek legal, accounting and other similar professional services from competent providers of the organization's own choosing. Prepared by: Ellucian 2003 Edmund Halley Dr Reston, VA 20191 United States of America Revision History Publication Date Summary March 2019 New version that supports General 8.11 software. RELEASE 8.11 Table of Contents Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Step Description and Dependencies Table............................................................................................. 4 Step 1 Distribute Release Documents .............................................................................................. 5 Step 2 Verify Environment Prerequisites .......................................................................................... 5 Step 3 Upgrade Prerequisites ........................................................................................................... 7 Step 4 Upgrade preparation ............................................................................................................ 12 Step 5 Modify database objects ...................................................................................................... 14 Step 6 Migrate from stage to permanent directories ....................................................................... 21 UNIX ......................................................................................................................................... 21 MICROSOFT WINDOWS ........................................................................................................ 22 Step 7 Compile COBOL programs .................................................................................................. 23 UNIX ......................................................................................................................................... 24 MICROSOFT WINDOWS ........................................................................................................ 24 Step 8 Compile C programs ............................................................................................................ 25 UNIX ......................................................................................................................................... 25 MICROSOFT WINDOWS ........................................................................................................ 25 Step 9 Apply required data changes ............................................................................................... 26 Step 10 Generate Oracle Forms ....................................................................................................... 26 Step 11 Generate Oracle Reports..................................................................................................... 26 Step 12 Compile Java Programs ...................................................................................................... 26 UNIX ......................................................................................................................................... 27 MICROSOFT WINDOWS ........................................................................................................ 28 Step 13 Update letter generation/population selection tables .......................................................... 28 Step 14 Update referential integrity constraints ................................................................................ 28 Step 15 Restart the gostage process ............................................................................................. 28 Step 16 Verify the state of the upgraded environment...................................................................... 28 Index...................................................................................................................................................... 31 MARCH 2019 BANNER GENERAL 8.11 UPGRADE GUIDE 2 RELEASE 8.11 Overview This document describes the steps required to upgrade Banner General release 8.10 or higher to release 8.11. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Banner Release Interdependencies and the Banner Media Unload Reference Guide documents, which are available within Documentation Libraries on the Ellucian Support Center. Documentation Library Files can be found in the Ellucian Support Center under the Documentation Libraries tab or by using the Global Search Feature. The Release Interdependencies document outlines the release interdependencies for all products within the Unified Digital Campus (UDC). Before you install or upgrade a product within the UDC, use this document to determine which other UDC products you must install first. The Banner Media Unload Reference Guide describes the common steps that are required for every Banner upgrade. It also includes reference information about the symbols and conventions used throughout Banner upgrade guides. NOTES: 1. Any upgrade issues discovered and reported to the Action Line subsequent to the posting of this release will be documented in the "Banner General 8.11 Upgrade Issues" Article 000043935 and made available via the Ellucian Support Center (http://www.ellucian.com/Solutions/Ellucian-Client-Support/). It is necessary that you check this document prior to applying the release by querying for Article 000043935. 2. This upgrade can be installed manually and is also available for installation using the Ellucian Solution Manager (ESM) or the Automated Installer. The minimum version of ESM required is 1.12. See the "Banner Upgrades Support Status" document available within Documentation Libraries on the Ellucian Support Center, for a complete list of Banner releases that ESM supports for installation. Please note that step 12 of this upgrade is not supported by ESM and need to be performed manually. Additional information regarding the Automated Installer can be found in Step 3 Part B of this upgrade guide. MARCH 2019 BANNER GENERAL 8.11 UPGRADE GUIDE 3 RELEASE 8.11 Step Description and Dependencies Table The following list of steps is consistent from release to release. Any steps that are not required are marked N/A in the "Applies to this upgrade" column in this table. Step Applies Description Depends on Restart Notes to this Step upgrade 1 Distribute Release Documents — 2 Verify Environment Prerequisites Previous A 3 Upgrade Prerequisites Previous 4 Upgrade Preparation Previous A 5 Modify database objects (gostage) Previous B 6 Migrate from stage to permanent directories Previous A 7 Compile COBOL programs 6 A 8 Compile C programs 6 A 9 Apply additional data changes 5 A 10 N/A Generate Oracle forms 6 A 11 N/A Generate Oracle reports 6 A 12 Compile JAVA programs 6 A 13 N/A Update letter generation/population selection tables Previous A 14 N/A Update referential integrity constraints 5 A 15 N/A Restart the gostage process Previous A 16 Verify the state of the upgraded environment Previous A If any errors or problems occur during the upgrade process, login to the Ellucian hub at http://www.ellucian.com/Solutions/Ellucian-Client-Support/ to search for solutions or to submit a case for assistance with the issue. You can also report issues via telephone at 1-844-358-7222 MARCH 2019 BANNER GENERAL 8.11 UPGRADE GUIDE 4 RELEASE 8.11 MULTI-ENTITY PROCESSING ALERT: This upgrade delivers steps to support MULTI-ENTITY PROCESSING (MEP*) in your database. The only manual modifications to be made to the delivered scripts will now be in step 5 part B where your institution must determine which of the newly delivered tables should be VPD'd/MEP'd by the upgrade. Release Table 8.10.1 GURCCPR 8.10.2 GCBEVMP 8.10.4 GTVSEIR, GTVSEID, GORSEID, GORSETP, GORPSID and GORPSAD 8.11 GCBCREC, GCBTMTL, GCRTITM, GCRAFLU, GCRAFCT and GCBRAUD If left unmodified, the ggubmepoi_081001.sql, ggubmepoi_081002.sql, ggubmepoi_081004.sql and ggubmepoi_081100.sql script will MEP all the new 14 tables delivered with this upgrade. It is crucial that the functional users be consulted prior to Step 5, part B to verify that the newly delivered tables should be MEP'd. Any tables which should not be MEP'd must be removed from the script prior to running it. *MEP refers to MULTI-ENTITY