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Preserving user custom settings

This section explains how user custom settings are preserved.

During an upgrade many product files are replaced with newer versions. Other files are merged with existing files to produce the updated version. Still other files are generated by the installation process using values you provide. For more information see, Product behavior with custom configuration settings.

The following general rules apply to how user custom settings are preserved:

The configuration process works with two basic types of files:

The initialization files are source files and the configuration files are output files. Although the source files are modified by the configuration tools and sometimes by hand, the configuration output files are rarely modified. Configuration files are generated files, therefore anything changed manually in configuration files is lost during the reconfiguration of that component.

To recover a manual customization after upgrading, perform the following steps:

    • Compare the new version of the K??CMA.ini or K??ENV file with the version saved in the itm_home\backup\backups\date_and_time_of_upgrade directory.

    • Compare the new version of the *.ini file with the version saved in the same directory as *.ini.bak.

  1. Change the installer-supplied defaults to the hand-edited values found in the backup file. Make any changes required to carry your hand-edited custom settings forward, and save the new file.


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