Upgrading Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server to 15.7.1

Upgrade Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server to version 15.7.1.

1. Create the 15.7.1 version of all valid existing Replication Agent instances.
   
   Note: This step creates new Replication Agent 15.7.1 instances for all valid existing instances of the earlier version of Replication Agent, regardless of whether the existing instances are for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or IBM DB2. To complete the upgrade for Oracle or DB2 instances, see the appropriate procedure. If you do not want to run a newly created instance on this host, simply delete the new instance directory.
   1. Open a command window.
   2. Set the SYBASE environment variables by changing to the SYBASE directory in which Replication Agent 15.7.1 is installed and executing the SYBASE.bat script.
   3. Change to:

      cd %SYBASE%\RAX-15_5\bin

      Note: The Replication Agent directory name for release 15.5 and later is RAX-15_5.
   4. Create new versions of all valid existing instances:

      ra_admin init

2. Start and log in to each of the Replication Agent for Microsoft SQL Server 15.7.1 instances and:
   
   1. Set the rs_charset configuration parameter to match the Replication Server character set, as described in the Replication Agent Reference Manual.
   2. Use the test_connection command to ensure that Replication Agent can connect to both Microsoft SQL Server and Replication Server.
   3. Initialize the Replication Agent instance and migrate the Replication Agent instance's metadata by issuing the ra_migrate command.

      When this command executes in the first Replication Agent 15.7.1 instance, it will also initialize the Microsoft SQL Server. In subsequent Replication Agent 15.7.1 instances, it will only initialize the instance and migrate the instance metadata.

   4. Migrate the Replication Agent metadata by issuing the ra_migrate command.