We just upgraded our iMIS from 10.6 to 15.03. During test and development, we successfully installed a 2nd instance in our DEV environement in order to user another database. Now we upgraded our production database just fine, and have tried to repeat the multi-instance process for the 2nd database, but failed.
ASI told us that we must have public views installed in order for the multi-instance tool to work. But we use eSeries and do not use public views. We did not have public views installed on the DEV site when we were successful. Anyone have any clues?
workaround
The 15.0.3 version of the MI utility is looking for a full iMIS install on the current server, including the public view folder (by default, C:\Program Files\ASI\iMIS15\iMIS_public). It takes the input path you specify and appends "imis_public" to get the path to the public view folder.
The only public view changes that the utility makes are to the web.config ("DataSource.iMIS.Connection" and "ImisWebServerUrl"). You don't need a valid public view URL, for example. For a workaround, try this:
- create an imis_public folder under your second instance folder
- copy web.config from the net folder to it
- run the utility again