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Planning Your Upgrade

Upgrades: All upgrades.

Environments: All environments.

There are several ways that you can proceed with the Siebel 7.8 upgrade. Consider your schedule, requirements, and available resources as you perform the following Siebel 7.8 upgrade tasks.

• Planning Changes to the Physical Layout of the Schema
• Testing Before a Production Upgrade
• Considering Code Page Support
• Executions of Jobs Using Siebel-Scheduled Mode or Vendor-Scheduled Mode
• Source and Target Database Planning
• Obtaining Required Software and Hardware
• Obtaining Required IBM Utilities
• Obtaining Required Security Privileges
• Planning Backup and Recovery Stages
• Creating a Schedule for the Upgrade