Question on Uninstalling Infosphere 8.7

JPalatianos · Post by **JPalatianos** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:40 am

Hi,
We were in the process of migrating our 8.0.1 environment to our new 8.7 servers and we just found out that we need to go to version 9.1 to accomodate a Greenplum connector that IBM should be delivering by the end of this year. Going from 8.7 FP2 to 9.1 is not an inplace upgrade so I basically need to uninstall all the 8.7 components. I have all the 8.7 components(sevice tier/engine and repository as well as clients) colocated on a single windows box and was wondering if anyone has any informtaion on uninstalling all the components. To avoid losing all the other work we have done on teh server I am trying to avoid having the server ops group reimage the machines and start with a fresh slate.
Thanks - - John

JPalatianos · Post by **JPalatianos** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:25 am

I did find the following:

IBM\InformationServer\_uninstall\uninstall.exe

Has anyone used this?
I figured if this gets rid of WAS and Information Server components I can delete the DB2 instance separately.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 7:32 am

I had so many warnings and issues that it was faster and less error prone to restore our backup image of the system taken prior to the upgrade. Sorry to have to give you our bad news.

DSUser2000 · Post by **DSUser2000** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:31 am

Wasn't 9.1 advertised with having an in-place-upgrade from 8.7? Or is that just working when you don't have FP2 installed?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:32 pm

In-place upgrade may not yet be available for version 9.1. The Concierge service will be all over this. Stay tuned.