Upgrades from earlier versions (Maitre’D 2003 or Maitre’D 2005)

If you are upgrading from an earlier version, you need to make sure that archives are migrated to the new version. The process of migrating archives is explained in the Maitre’D 7.08 migration documentation and will not be re-explained here. Please consult the appropriate documentation for more information.

After all your Maitre’D archives have been migrated, many years’ worth of archives may need to be purged of credit card PANs and expiration dates. Maitre’D takes care of this process for you. It is entirely automated and requires absolutely no intervention on your part whatsoever. Depending on the number of archives to be stripped out of PANs and expiration dates, the entire process may take a few days to complete. The way this is done is that Maitre’D purges up to 30 archives during the end-of-day process, and resumes the purging process during the next end-of-day until all archives have been processed. The purging process was designed that way to create as little downtime as possible for end-users, and be totally transparent.

Once the automated purge process is completed for all archives, the Maitre’D database will no longer contain any PAN or expiration date older than the current fiscal day.