Test environment

Best practice is to test the software updates in a test environment before you implement the updates in your live environment.

To test the software updates, create the update VRCs and the VRC combination for your test environment.

Note: For the Infor Enterprise Server (Tools), no update VRC is created. Therefore, you cannot create an update VRC for testing purposes. To test the Infor Enterprise Server software updates before installation in your live environment, you require a separate installation of LN.

Create the update VRC for a test environment parallel to the VRCs in your live environment. This diagram shows an example:

The update VRCs that are grouped in a VRC combination, for example, B61U_a_stnd and B61U_a_loca are updated simultaneously.

The B61T_a_stnd and the B61T_a_loca are updated in the same way. These VRCs represent a test environment.

Note: If you do not have a localization or extension installed, no VRC combination is required. The only update VRC you require for your test environment is B61T_a_stnd.

To create a PMC test environment:

  1. Start the session. Specify this information:

    • In the Package to Determine VRC Structure field specify the package tf. Do not use any other packages, such as cp.
    • You can choose any customer VRC extension for the Update Customer field. Note that the Update Customer fields are the five fields on the far right in the VRC Information group box. We recommend that you use stnd for standard VRCs and the same value as the base VRC customer code for localizations and extensions. If you do not have a localization installed, leave the Localizations fields blank.
    • Specify the VRC Combination field and a description. This step is not required if you do not have a localization installed.
    • The Customization Type field can contain any character, but the character T is recommended for a test.
    • Select the Create Update VRCs check box.
    • Clear the Change Derivation of Other VRCs check box to specify that you do not want to derive the current VRCs from the new update VRC.
    • Clear the Update Package Combinations check box to specify that you do not want to change the VRCs in package combinations.
  2. If you do not yet have a package combination that contains the new VRC structure, you must create a package combination. Use the and sessions to set up a package combination.

  3. Start the session.

    Specify the information in the dialog box. Click Create Runtime for all package combinations in the range of updated package combinations, you selected in the session.

    Select these options:

    • Domains
    • Tables
    • Check before create runt.
    • Reconfigure tables
    • Sessions
    • Print Errors