Supported installation and upgrade paths

Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.

You cannot directly install HCL Digital Experience 9.5. You must install first HCL Digital Experience 8.5 with the latest combined cumulative fixes applied, then you can install HCL Digital Experience 9.5 using IBM Installation Manager. You can keep your profile at the current level or migrate your profile to the updated version.

• Installation and upgrade 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.

• Installation and upgrade 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.

• Installation and upgrade 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 either by staying at WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5.x or moving to IBM WebSphere Application Server ND Version 9.0.5.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

For an introduction and a demo on how to upgrade your HCL Digital Experience deployment to the latest Cumulative Fix, go to Upgrade the HCL HCL Digital Experience software.