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Pre-requisites | Data Migration Tool Manual


Pre-requisites:

  • Running Ingres R3 Database Server
    Click here to download the latest copy of Ingres R3 Database Server
    Click here to see steps for configuring the Ingres Database Server

  • Compiled Shift2Ingres source code.
    Click here to download the latest copy of the source code
    Click here to see steps for building Shift2Ingres source code

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Data Migration Tool manual

  • Step 0: Login into the Operating system with Ingres and OS administrator username

  • Step 1: Make sure you meet the pre-requisites.

  • Step 2: Open an Ingres Command Prompt (in windows) or run 'source ~{ingres}/.ingIIbash' (in linux), where {ingres} is the home directory of the ingres user. Make sure 'useradd' (for linux) and 'net' (for windows) command is in the path.

  • Step 3: Change directory to {S2I_SRC}/Shift2Ingres where {S2I_SRC} is the directory in which you unzipped/untarred the source code file.

  • Step 4: Configure the data migration tool
    • Open the ./resources/Shift2Ingres_Migration.properties
      • Set Oracle/DB2 (source) database properties
      • Set Ingres (destination) database properties
      • Set CharSet to Ingres Database Character Set (II_CHARSETII env variable)

  • Step 5: Start GUI
    You can start the data migration toolkit GUI by running 'sh ./startDataMigration.sh' (for Linux) or './startDataMigration.bat' (for Windows).

  • OR Step 5: Start TUI
    You can start the data migration toolkit TUI by running 'sh ./startDataMigration.sh -t' (for Linux) or './startDataMigration.bat -t' (for Windows).

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All the code and documents are solely owned by the Shift2Ingres team. Shift2Ingres migration toolkit is available for public use under the BSD Open Source License.