Back up your resources before you
start to migrate components to WebSphere® Message Broker Version 8.0.
Before you complete migration tasks,
back up your WebSphere Message
Broker Version 7.0 resources
by completing the following steps.
- Optional: If your message flows access user
databases through an ODBC connection, back up the ODBC files that
you use for these connections. Take a copy of these files
and store them safely in a different location.
- Optional: If you created or configured configurable
services for your message flows, record the properties of all your
configurable services. For example, a message flow might
access user databases through a JDBC connection, for which you configured
a JDBCProvider configurable service. Run the mqsireportproperties command
for these services, take a copy of the output, and store it safely
in a different location.
- Back up your WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit workspace
and resources; for example, message flow files, message set definition
files, Java™ files, ESQL files,
mapping files, XML Schema files, and broker archive (BAR) files.
- Export all your projects from your Version 7.0 WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit.
- Archive your workspace resources:
- If you manage your workspace resources in a shared repository,
for example CVS, follow standard backup procedures for safeguarding
versions. Create a version for storing Version
8.0 resources.
- If you maintain your workspace resources on a local or shared
disk, copy your workspace directory to a different location.
Next:
After you back
up your WebSphere Message
Broker Version 7.0 resources, update
your ODBC definitions by following the instructions in Updating ODBC definitions when migrating.