Prerequisites for Unica Journey Installation or Upgrade

Before installing Unica Journey version 26.1.0, you have to ensure that a few prerequisites are met.

About this task

If a you are a new user, and if you have HCL MariaDB, ORACLE, DB2, Postges DB or Microsoft SQL Server as the database, you can directly install Unica Journey 26.1.0. Ensure that Unica Platform version 26.1.0 is operating correctly.

The supported upgrade path for Unica Journey 26.1.0 are as follows:
Table 1. Journey Supported Installation Paths
Base Journey version Upgrade path Tasks to be performed
In case of Oracle, the base Unica Journey can be:
  • 12.1.x
  • 12.1.0.x
  • 25.1
  • 25.1.0.1
  • 25.1.1
In case of Microsoft SQL Server and MariaDB the base version is 12.1.0.3 and later.
  • 12.1.0.3
  • 12.1.x
  • 25.1
  • 25.1.0.1
  • 25.1.1
In case on Db2 Base version should be 12.1.4 and later.
  • 12.1.4
  • 12.1.x
  • 25.1
  • 25.1.0.1
  • 25.1.1
 In case of Oracle, the upgrade path can be:
  • 12.1.x → 26.1
  • 12.1.0.x → 26.1
  • 25.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.0.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.1 → 26.1
In case of Microsoft SQL Server and MariaDB the upgrade path should be:
  • 12.1.0.3 → 26.1
  • 12.1.x → 26.1
  • 25.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.0.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.1 → 26.1
In case of DB2, the upgrade path should be:
  • 12.1.4 → 26.1
  • 12.1.x → 26.1
  • 25.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.0.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.1 → 26.1
  1. First Upgrade Unica Marketing Platform & Journey to 26.1.
  2. Configure Journey application
  3. Deploy Platform & Journey application.
  4. Run Journey application.
In case of Postgres, the base Unica Journey can be: 12.1.8
  • 12.1.8
  • 12.1.x
  • 25.1
  • 25.1.0.1
  • 25.1.1
 In case of Postgres upgrade path should be
  • 12.1.8 → 26.1
  • 12.1.x → 26.1
  • 25.1 → 26.1
  • 25.1.0.1→ 26.1
  • 25.1.1 → 26.1
Note:
  1. When for Postgres Database platform and Journey is having base as 25.1.

  2. For Postgres DB user needs to run the following scripts on journey system database:

    ALTER TABLE <jouurneysys>.EmailTouchPoint RENAME COLUMN procifchanconsentnotgiven TO proceedifchannelconsentnot given ;

    ALTER TABLE <jouurneysys>.smstouchpoint RENAME COLUMN procifchanconsentnotgiven TO proceedifchannelconsentnot given ;

    ALTER TABLE < jouurneysys>.whatsapptouchpo int RENAME COLUMN procifchanconsentnotgiven TO proceedifchannelconsentnot given ;

  3. Deploy Platform and then Journey application.
  4. Upgrade Unica Marketing Platform and Journey to either 25.1.0.1 or 25.1.1 or 26.1.0.
  5. Configure Journey application.
  6. Deploy Journey application.
  7. Run Journey application.
Note: If you do not have Journey already installed on existing Unica environment with either MS SQL Server, DB2, MariaDB, Postges DB or Oracle database then you can install Journey version 26.1.0 directly as clean install.

Prerequisites for installation, or upgrade, of Unica Journey are as follows:

Procedure

  1. Ensure that all users are logged out.
  2. Stop Unica Journey, Unica Platform, and all applications that are deployed with it. Also, stop all other components, for example Journey Engine, Kafka server, etc.
  3. Undeploy Unica Platform and Unica Journey web application from the application server.
  4. Stop the application server and clean the application server cache.
  5. Back up the Unica Platform and Unica Journey database and file system directory to any temporary directory.