Welcome to Embarcadero® DB Change Manager™ 6.2 and XE4

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ReadMe Last Published: Aug. 12, 2013. Any updates to these notes will be available at http://docs.embarcadero.com/.


Thank you for using Embarcadero DB Change Manager! Its compare, synchronization, data masking, and auditing capabilities let you track and report on changes, roll out new releases, and pinpoint performance problems resulting from changes to the data, schema, and database configurations. By comparing a live database to a schema or configuration “snapshot” administrators can quickly identify changes and correct problems. By monitoring configuration settings, DBAs can ensure compliance with regulatory policies and performance standards, and maintain overall database performance and availability.

What's New in Change Manager

This releases focuses on maintenance only, specifically on fixing customer-reported bugs. There are no new or changed features.

Release Notes

System Requirements

DBMS Support

Important Advisory Notes

Upgrading

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

System Requirements

Change Manager supports the following operating systems:

The following operating systems are not supported in the 6.2/XE4 release:

DBMS Support

Change Manager supports the following platforms.

Important Advisory Notes

Upgrading

DB Change Manager 6.2 should be installed in a different directory than 4.x or 5.x versions. If DB Change Manager is installed in the same directory, the following error will result in at application start up: "Unable to read workbench state. Workbench UI layout will be reset."

If a 4.x or 5.x version is already installed on your machine, either change the default Workspace or delete all files from the Workspace directory. The Workspace directory location appears whenever you start DB Change Manager and can be redefined from this dialog box. If the same Workspace is indicated for the new version, as was indicated previously, the following error will result: "Cannot restore workbench layout."

If DB Change Manager is already running, you can also modify the Workspace directory by choosing File > Switch Workspace > Other from the Main menu.

The format in which schema comparisons are saved has changed in 6.0/6.1/6.2. Use the import feature to import pre-6.0 schema comparison jobs.

DB Change Manager 6.2 provides an upgrade process for moving jobs and other information from an existing Change Manager 4.0, 5.0, 5.1.x, 5.5.x or 5.6 installations. No upgrade process is required to move from 6.1 to 6.2.

NOTE: You do not have to upgrade to 5.6 and then to 6.2. The import procedure is the same.

Upgrading from Version 5.0, 5.1.x, 5.5.x or 5.6 to Version 6.2

All objects can be imported from version 5.0, 5.1.x, 5.5.x or 5.6 to Version 6.2.

To upgrade from 5.0, 5.1.x, 5.5.x or 5.6:

  1. Make sure that the earlier product is not running and that no command line jobs are being processed.
  2. Install and run DB Change Manager 6.2 in a different directory than the previous installation.
  3. The Welcome to DB Change Manager dialog opens with the Setup and Import data sources, jobs, and settings from a previous version import options selected.
  4. Click Get Started to launch the Import Wizard. Alternatively, you can launch the Import Wizard from the main menu:
  5. Select the version of Change Manager from which to import.
  6. Select the location of your DB Change Manager workspace. The default value is the default workspace, so you need only change this value if you configured DB Change Manager to store the workspace in a custom location.
  7. The wizard imports the items from the previous Change Manager version. Click Next to continue through each step of the wizard.
  8. Click Finish. The jobs are imported to version 6.2.

Upgrading from Version CMSchema 4.0 or CMData/Config 4.0 to 6.2

The following objects can be imported from version 4.0:

The following objects cannot be imported from version 4.0:

Note: 4.0 should remain installed to access any archives and reports.

To upgrade from CM Schema 4.0:

  1. To import schema comparison jobs from 4.0, obtain and install cmschema_40_932_upgrade.exe from your Embarcadero Technologies Support representative.
  2. Run cmschema_40_932_upgrade.exe to convert the schema component jobs from version 4.0 to 5.0, which uses an XML-based format.
  3. Follow the steps as described in the previous section, "Upgrading from Version 5.0, 5.1.x, 5.5.x or 5.6".

Known Issues

General

Schema Comparison

Data Comparison

Bug Fixes

Bugs fixed in Change Manager 6.2/XE4 include:
Bug DBMS Description
1286 All As a user I have a schema compare option to ignore brackets in a comparison
4435 All Option to exclude header from multiple archive SQL files
13998 All When new database is added to datasource, it is automatically selected for inclusion in an existing schema comparison job.
14033 SQL Server TS: The reports for Schema Comparison Job doesn't show the "nn% MATCH" total
14099 SQL Server SCHEMA_COMPARE - Matching Procedures different due to square brackets
14190 Sybase [Schema Comparison Job] Job results report differences where none exist.
14193 SQL Server [Schema Archive] The TempCache folder is consuming a lot of space.
14197 All [Schema Archive Job] DDL scripts are not deleted when deleting schema archive job
14205 Oracle TS: Configuration parameter shown in Results doesn't appear in the Configuration Property Refinement
14232 DB2 DB2 index property differences should be ingnored in Schema Comparison job
14233 DB2 Differences in DB2 Primary Key, Unique Key Column Count should be ignored by out comparison. They are only valid on Index level.
14234 Sybase [Schema Archive Job] Time gap between the job starting and the populating databases step

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