Upgrading Workarea Data from an Earlier Rational Statemate Version
Workarea data formats are not carried over from version to version of Rational Statemate. The following sections describe how to convert existing workareas to your new Rational Statemate version.
When you open a workarea of Rational Statemate 3.3.1 (DB Version 31) or a higher version with Rational Statemate, you are prompted for an automatic conversion of the DB format. The conversion changes the existing workarea to the new DB format, so you can use the workarea with the new Rational Statemate version.
Once the workarea DB format conversion is complete, previous versions of Rational Statemate will not be able to read the workarea format.
The automatic workarea DB conversion steps are:
1. The existing workarea is copied “as is” with the existing DB version number as an extension to its name (for example,P:\work\wa_1
, using DB version 31, is copied toP:\work\wa_1_31
).
Note: You can skip go to step 1 by setting the following environment variable:STM_CONVERT_DB_DO_NOT_COPY_WA=ON).
2. The data is extracted from the existing workarea to a temporary subdirectory below the workarea:<workarea>\tmp\convert_util_dir\
.
3. The binary filecharts.data
in the existing workarea is renamed to include the existing DB version number as an extension to its name (for example,charts.data
using DB version 31 is renamed to:charts.data_31
).