Supported installation and upgrade paths | HCL Digital Experience
Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
General note: You cannot directly install
HCL Digital Experience 9.0 or 9.5. You must install first HCL Digital Experience 8.5.0
with the latest combined cumulative fixes applied, then you can install HCL Digital
Experience 9.0 or 9.5 using IBM Installation Manager. You can keep your profile at the
current level or migrate your profile to the updated version.
Note for new HCL Digital Experience customers: HCL
Digital Experience 9.5 can run on top of IBM WebSphere Application Server
Version ND 9.0.5 using the following installation path.
Note for customers running on Portal 8.5 on WAS 8.5/9.0 and Java SDK 7.0: Install HCL Digital Experience 9.5 using the following installation path either
by staying at WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5.x or moving to IBM WebSphere
Application Server ND Version 9.0.5.
Note for customers running on Portal 9.0 on WAS 8.5/9.0 and Java SDK 7.0: Install HCL Digital Experience 9.5 using the following installation
path.