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To upgrade DataGate and ASNA Visual RPG
Products you need
For deployment
- DataGate for IBM i 17.1
- For Web apps
- DataGate WebPak 17.1 for Windows Web server
- For fat clients
- ASNA Visual RPG 17.1 Deployment
For development:
- Visual Studio 2022 (Professional version or higher)
- ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) 17.1
DataGate/WebPak/AVR can be downloaded here
Upgrade installation order
- Upgrade the IBM i server first
- Install DataGate for IBM i 17.1 (old versions of AVR can work with with higher versions of DataGate).
- Test apps against this new DataGate for IBM i
- Install WebPak (match version to DataGate for IBM i)
- Test apps against new WebPak
- Then upgrade dev PCs
- Remove current version of AVR
- You can only have one version of AVR installed at a time on a single PC
- Remove Visual Studio 2019
- Technically, you don’t have to remove the previous version of Visual Studio—you can have multiple versions of Visual Studio on the same PC. However, unless you have a very good reason for keeping Visual Studio 2019 installed, we recommend removing it.
- Install Visual Studio 2022 (Professional version or higher)
- Install ASNA Visual RPG 17.1
- Remove current version of AVR
Other info
You don’t need to recompile your older projects—they will run as is with the 17.1 Web pak.
Your 16.0 projects upgrade automatically to 17.1 when you open them. This implicit conversion is one-way; so be sure to have good backups of all of your source.
You will need new keys for all upgraded ASNA 17.1 products. Call us for temp keys for use during installation. After installation call us for perm keys.
No changes are needed to IIS on either the Web server or your dev boxes.