Hi,
If you use ARAdmin for the application and RRR|Chive to move the data,
there process is quite easily accomplished.
I just did this at a customer site myself, where we moved from
6.3/Unix/Oracle to 7.1/Windows/MS-SQL.
RRR|Chive can do incremental data copies of the data, so if you have both
servers up and running parallell, you can minimize downtime and test your
new server thoroughly before you make the switch.
The big issue was the char-field-length. A single-byte-character can
become a multi-byte-character in Unicode. We had to extend some fields to
have room for the unicode-version of the old data...
Another issue was that data exported through ARAdmin with a Deployable
Application was not handled ok. You must use arx-files and ARImport, or
something like RRR|Chive.
Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se
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> Mark - there is no other solution ?
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Walters, Mark
> <mark_walt...@bmc.com>wrote:
>
>> You cannot convert an existing non-unicode AR instance to unicode by
>> running the installer. You need to perform a clean unicode install of
>> ARS
>> and any applications and then migrate your data and workflow
>> customisations
>> via export/import, Migrator or equivalent.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Ramy
>> S.
>> Ayoub
>> Sent: Fri 30/01/2009 19:40
>> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>> Subject: Re: Upgarde ARserver 7.1 patch 5 from non-unicode to unicode
>>
>>
>> **
>>
>> Hi joe,
>>
>>
>>
>> Longtime :) , we have our production servers running in non-Unicode as
>> we
>> receive data from Seibel ebusiness (Remedy Integrated with Seibel
>> through
>> tibco media ware , so the data become like ??? , so I found out the my
>> arserver non-Unicode.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I run my upgrade in the dev environment but didn't give me the chance
>> to
>> choose the Unicode , its given me direct upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>> any solution for this
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Joe DeSouza <joe_rem...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> **
>> Would be useful if you would tell what went wrong when you tried
>> so
>> someone can help you with what your problem was..
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Ramy S. Ayoub <ramyay...@gmail.com>
>> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:23:45 PM
>> Subject: Upgarde ARserver 7.1 patch 5 from non-unicode to unicode
>>
>> **
>>
>> Dear List ,
>>
>>
>>
>> Tired to upgrade our ARserver from non-Unicode to uni-code, as we
>> are running SQL-Server 2005
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ramy Ayoub
>>
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