Oracle corp provides some migration assistance. In my experience, database migration is easier part ( in terms of man days, technical difficulties , testing etc.). Application conversion/migration could be tougher and more time consuming depending on the decision you have made ( complete rewrite/ convert on Oracle RDBMs). For Migration related help/service/toolkit, you can search oracle site or contact Oracle Folks (they have a migration expertise group within their org). If you are using COBOL with embedded Sql ( Pro*CoBOL for Oracle product), then you will be able to convert to Oracle with less pain. It also depends on the architecture of the application or how the apps/rdbms inteface has been handled. Other (significant)factor would be usage of special datatypes ( LOB/CLOB/Raw of your rdbms) and how that mapps to Oracle datatypes and Cobol/application data types
Thanks and Best Regards, Pradip -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi list Is there somebody on this wonderfull list considering to move away from the mainframe computer with his old RDMS to another platform (MS or UNIX) with oracle/sqlserver ? What are your scenarios : Big bang or keep 2 database in synch (how ?) Anyone with Unisys Clearpath systems with this case ? Thanks for your contribution vr.gr. G.g. Kor Sr. System Engineer I&DM Db RDW Voertuiginformatie en -toelating -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
