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BMC Decision Support - Database Automation 8.6

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The BMC Decision Support – Database Automation product is a powerful web-based reporting and analytics product. 
Release notes and notices
updated 06 Apr
This section provides information about what is new or changed in this space, including urgent issues, documentation updates, service packs, and patches.

Date

Title

Summary

April 06, 2015Patch 1: version 8.6.00.001Does not provide any fixes or updates
December 11, 20148.6.00 enhancements

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  • Compliance Summary report
  • Job Summary report

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Known and corrected issues

Getting Started

 




 

Planning

 

Concepts, architecture, deployment, planning, and system requirements.

Installing

 

Information about installing the product and migrating product data.

Configuring after installation

 

Required post-installation configuration.

Upgrading

 

Upgrade process, migration, and configuration.

Troubleshooting

 

Issues resolution, error messages, logs, and contacting Support.

Using

 

Interface descriptions, using the product.

Administering

 

Security, system administration, maintenance.

Integrating

 

Integrations with other products.
What's new?

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Downloading and extracting the patch

Installing Patch 1 installs the entire BMC Decision Support – Database Automation product. You can download the patch files from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website at http://webapps.bmc.com/epd. The version number shown on EPD is 8.6.00.001.

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To extract the BMC Decision Support - Database Automation installation files

  1. Log on to the host computer as Administrator (application server).
  2. Extract the bds-<version>-win64.zip file into a temporary directory.
    The Disk1 folder contains the setup.exe file for use when you install the product. 

Installing the patch as a fresh product installation

Before installing BMC Decision Support – Database Automation, BMC Database Automation must already be installed. For more information, see Preparing for installation.

Note

To ensure good performance, BMC recommends that you install BMC Decision Support – Database Automation on a server that is separate from the server running BMC Database Automation Server.

For information about installing this patch, see Performing the installation.

Upgrading to the patch

To upgrade to this patch, complete the tasks described in the following topics:

Note

Before you upgrade BMC Decision Support – Database Automation application, services of the BMC Database Automation application and BMC Decision Support – Database Automation application must be up and running until the upgrade is completed. Also, ensure that no maintenance work is being performed on the BMC Database Automaton application during installation. After upgrade, reboot your system to start the product services.

Review the supported upgrade paths

You can upgrade to this patch from the following versions: 

  • 8.6.00
  • 8.5.00, 8.5 SP1
  • 8.3.00, 8.3 SP1, 8.3 SP2, 8.3 SP3

For more information about upgrading, see the topics listed in Upgrading.

Run the patch installer

For information about installing this service pack, see Installing.

Postinstallation tasks

For information about the postinstallation tasks, see Configuring after installation.

Related topic

Known and corrected issues
Frequently asked questions and other information

 

This topic provides information that supplements the BMC Decision Support – Database Automation 8.6.00 documentation. It contains the following sections:

Frequently asked questions

This section provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about BMC Decision Support – Database Automation.

Where to find information previously provided in a guide or manual

Document title

Found here in

Installation Guide

 Planning
 Installing
 Upgrading  

Administrator Guide

Administering

User Guide

 Key concepts  
 Integrating
 Using  

The following table describes where you can find information previously provided in release notes.

Type of information

Found here in

  • Issues corrected by the base release and its service packs and patches
  • Issues that are currently open

Known and corrected issues

Technical bulletins contained information delivered after a product was released, often in conjunction with a service pack or patch for that release.

Where to find information previously provided in a technical bulletin

Type of technical bulletin

Found here in

Contents of a service pack or patch and instructions particular to it

  • The child topic for that service pack or patch under Release notes and notices
  • For issues corrected in the service pack or patch, sort the table in Known and corrected issues by the "Corrected in" column

Other information

Placed in context throughout this space, but listed and linked to in Technical bulletins. You will not have this topic in the first release of the product such as 8.6.00.

Flashes contained urgent information about product issues and are delivered after a product is released. On docs.bmc.com, this information is delivered in an "Urgent issues" topic, under Release notes and notices. If this topic does not exist for a given product release, no urgent issues have been discovered for that release.

Yes, all the content for BMC Decision Support - Database Automation 8.6.00 is in this space.

You can create a custom PDF of this release notes and notices branch.

The BMC Documentation portal gives you the ability to generate PDF and Microsoft Word documents of single pages, and to create PDF exports of multiple pages in a space.  

Creating PDF and Word exports

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

  1. From the Tools menu in the upper-right, select a format:
    • Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
    • Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
  2. If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
    • Only this page to export the current page
    • This page and its children to export a set of pages
    For example, selecting This page and its children from the home page exports the entire space to PDF.


 
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