Hello Ewald, I am afraid it is impossible. You will get msgs: .... ARI2038E Archive being restored is from a different release of DB2 Server for VM The restore has failed. ARI0032I The database manager has terminated. ARI0043I Database manager return code is 516.
Do you still have V7.30 available? If you have, restore using V7.30 and then migrate it to V7.50 is the only way to do so. Regards, ...Roland --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Ewald Roller <e.rol...@rolf-benz.de> wrote: From: Ewald Roller <e.rol...@rolf-benz.de> Subject: Restore DB2 Archive from old release to a newer release database To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 12:51 PM Hi, this might be a silly question: is there a way to restore a DB2 ARCHIVE (taken with V7.3) to restore on a newly created DB2 V7.5 Database ? Thanks Ewald Roller