Special considerations for upgrading the Reports feature

If you upgrade to Version 3.7 or above of RICOH ProcessDirector and have the Reports feature installed, the Reports feature is also upgraded.

The Reports feature for Version 3.7 and higher uses a PostgreSQL database to store the data collected. Previous versions used a DB2-based database called rptdb. Version 3.6 of RICOH ProcessDirector introduced the PostgreSQL database, but supported both databases. In Version 3.7, support for the DB2-based database was removed.

The PostgreSQL database is available on AIX, but RICOH ProcessDirector does not automatically install it or migrate your existing data into it. To use the updated Reports feature on AIX, you must install PostgreSQL and configure RICOH ProcessDirector to send data to it.

Three step templates that were supplied with the DB2-based Reports feature are deprecated:

  • ArchiveInserterData
  • ArchiveDocumentData
  • WriteJobReport

Workflows containing steps based on these step templates continue to run but the steps do not produce output.

If you export workflows containing these steps, you cannot import them onto a Version 3.9 or higher system because those step templates are not present on the system. Remove those steps from the workflows before you export them.

If you import workflows containing these steps onto a Version 3.10 or higher, those steps get replaced with a placeholder step template named ReplacedStep. The original step name and step template name are available in the Step properties.

Parent topic: Upgrading to the current version