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<663c35400910071056r188989b1x40a2e0b34083c...@mail.gmail.com>, Kyle
Moore <kmo...@mooreimages.com> writes
Get the new hardware, plan the steps for install/conversion, create test
cases, run a test conversion, adjust conversion procedures, run your test
cases and, once all issues are resolved and documented, schedule downtime,
blow away the target system so you have a clean platform again and pull the
trigger. You run in to the same problems (maybe more because you have time
to find them) but you aren't under the pressure of a downtime window to fix
them. You can also get your users to do "acceptance" on the system before
the real conversion (spread the responsibility). That makes the actual
conversion much less stressful and more successful.
Seeing as it's a migration FROM Solaris/UV TO Solaris/UV it shouldn't be
a problem. Though the advice usually is "upgrade one component at a
time", so you should really look at upgrading to UV 10 on your old
machine, bedding it in, then moving to your new Solaris and machine.
That said, I wouldn't expect any problems doing it your way.
Make sure your new machine is configured as closely as possible to the
old machine, in particular all the paths for the UV system directory and
accounts directories.
Just copy all the accounts across. Make sure they have entries in the
UV.ACCOUNT file.
Make sure that anything in the global catalog is catalog'd on the new
system - I think the command is MAKE.MAP.FILE - this will create an
&MAP& file that lists all the catalog'd routines. Run that on the old
system and go through it - make sure there's nothing there that will
surprise you.
Then hopefully you're all fit to go! There are some tricks - if you've
lost the source/binary to a catalog'd routine I'm pretty sure you can
extract it from the catalog - I'm not quite sure how, though.
Cheers,
Wol
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Louise Blair (DHL GB)
<louise.bl...@dhl.com>wrote:
Morning All,
Looking for some pointers/information/guidance from anyone that may have
already been through what we're going to be doing over the next few
months.
We will be migrating both our OS and Universe Database to a new physical
server as detailed below:
Current
Future
Sun Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) Sun Solaris 10
Universe 9.5.2.1
Universe 10 (at least)
I remember many, many moons ago migrating from PiOpen to Universe and it
was a weekend of hell, if my memory serves me correctly, and I want to
cut down the level of hell during this migration if at all possible. We
have many, many files, programs & subroutines that make up our
application, built up over the last 20 years or so which will mostly be
moving.
I also have a colleague that will be attending the U2 University in
Liverpool next week and will gladly listen to any helpful information
any of you, also attending, may have.
Thanks in Advance,
Louise Blair
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