Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Patch records
A patch record specifies which files the Differential Upgrade utility should compare, and creates a query that limits the comparison to certain records within files. There must be a patch record for each system in the comparison.
Note: The query should limit the number of records to upgrade. The more files in the patch record, the longer the Differential Upgrade process takes.
In a Differential upgrade comparison, you must have one patch record for each system to be compared. The patch record must point to identical files in each target system and generate the same queries. You can either create it once on each system; or create it on one system, unload it, and load it into the other system. You may prefer to create customized patch records before you start the Differential Upgrade process.
Note: Be sure to include all files that were modified during customizations that you promote to production.
One method of limiting the number of records included in the patch record is to use the sysmodtime field that many dbdicts contain. Service Manager updates this field automatically with each update of the record. If the file does not contain a sysmodtime field, you can either add it before starting the customization work on the development system, or use another limiting field such as update.time.
In the Patch record dialog box, you can specify that the Differential upgrade should perform Add only processing on a specific file. If you choose this option, Service Manager adds only new records to the Differential upgrade unload file and ignores changes to existing records in the development system.
Related concepts
Environment configuration
Tools to use for promoting customizations
Differential Upgrade utility
Signature records
Checklist: Differential upgrade steps
Related tasks
Create or update a Patch record
Create Signature records on the production system
Move Signature records to the development system
Create the differential upgrade from the development system
Customize the Differential upgrade unload file
Create a differential upgrade unload from an internal file
Load the Differential upgrade into the production system
Load an unload file
