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Installing Updates (Windows Installation Guide) (M6848IG+Updates.htm)

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Installing Updates

Updates to Reality are made available on the Northgate web site in the Reality Knowledge Base (http://www.northgate-reality.com/support.php). These are normally supplied as a service pack containing the latest recommended updates.

To download the latest service pack, select the V15.0 support link on the left of the page. Then click the pack for Windows platform and save the file.

Before downloading, please read the documents Description of Recommended Updates and Installation Info File for details of the contents of the updates and any additional configuration that might be necessary.

Caution

Before you install an update, ensure that you have an up-to-date backup of your existing data.

Note that to install a service pack, you must have at least 150Mb available on the drive containing the realman folder.

Other support information is available on the Reality web pages (http://www.northgate-is.com/reality/).

Procedure

For each Reality database to be updated:
- Save to elsewhere in the database any system file items that you have customised. Files that might have been customised include SYSPROG-PL, PROCLIB, BP, SYSBP, SYSBP.MSGS, SYSPL, SYS.BASLIB and BASIC-COMPILERS.
- Ensure that all users are logged off.
- Carry out FILE-SAVE and VERIFY-SAVE.
Log on to Windows as an administrator.
Ensure that no users are logged into Reality. If necessary use the LOGOFF command.
From the Northgate web site, download and run the required service pack.
Follow the on-screen prompts. install_fix will ask you for your name or initials and then display a description of each update to be installed and ask you to confirm installation.

Note: If the process detects that the current version of the update is already loaded, a message is displayed and the update is not installed.
The Reality services must be shut down before the reality executables can be rebuilt. You are therefore asked if you want to shut down the Reality services so that the rebuild can proceed:
- If you answer yes, the services are shut down and the executables are rebuilt. You are then asked if you want to restart the services; Reality cannot be used until this is done.
- If you answer no, you must complete the update at a later time by running install_fix with the -b option.
The installation process then rebuilds Reality if necessary and/or informs you that you should logon to each database to complete the installation.
On each database to be updated:
- Log on as the database owner. From the SYSMAN account run:
```
DBUPDATE {updateNumber}
```
  where updateNumber is the number of the update you have installed (for example, 14.2.0.0001); omit the update number to process all updates. Follow the on-screen prompts.
- Integrate any customised changes made in SYSPROG-PL, PROCLIB, BP, SYSBP, SYSBP.MSGS, etc. (saved in step 1 above).
- Carry out FILE-SAVE and VERIFY-SAVE.