Chapter 1. Migration overview

If you use Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4 and install Red Hat Decision Manager 7.1, you need to migrate the applications that you created in Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4 to the new product. Red Hat provides migration and upgrade tools wherever possible to facilitate migration.

The main change in Red Hat Decision Manager 7.1 that affects product migration is a new repository structure for Decision Central project data. Business assets that you created in Decision Central with Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4 must be migrated using the Decision Central migration tool provided with this release to accommodate a new data structure. Project data is restructured in Red Hat Decision Manager 7.1 so that each space (previously known as organizational unit) contains repositories that correspond to individual projects, instead of multiple projects in a single repository as in Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4. This improved structure means that you do not need to create and manage repositories in the new Decision Central and can focus on developing your business assets.

Migration paths are available for Decision Central distributions and for environments with Java projects moving to Red Hat Decision Manager 7.1.

For more information about updates and new features in this release, see the Release notes for Red Hat Decision Manager 7.1.