IBM Websphere Portal Migration
This section provides a detailed guide for migrating from previous versions of IBM WebSphere Portal to the current version of WebSphere Portal:
Perform the migration process in the order provided below. Some information, such as Migrating the customized resources and Migrating additional components, is optional based on how you customized the Portal and what components are installed.
- Planning
Information on what migration is, what is supported, and what tools we can use to perform the migration.
- Preparing the previous environment for migration
Required manual steps to prepare the previous IBM WebSphere Portal environment for migration.
- Migrating the customized resources
Some migration steps are optional depending on what customized resources you had in the previous version of IBM WebSphere Portal. You only need to migrate those resources that are relevant to the environment.
- Preparing to run the migration tasks
Manual steps that need to be performed before migrating IBM WebSphere Portal.
- Migrating WebSphere Portal Configurations
There are two options to choose from when migrating the WebSphere Portal configurations. We can run the migration tasks from a command line or we can automatically run the tasks using the migration wizard.
- Migrating the remaining access control configuration
Procedures that are necessary to migrate specific access control configurations that are not handled automatically by the migration process.
- Migrating additional components
Information on how to migrate the additional components that may be part of the environment.
- Migrating themes
- Verifying the migration tasks
Information that we can use to verify the success of the migration tasks.