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Virendra Shambharkar
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Hi,
Can you suggest some tools for ISAM to DB2 conversion.
Also can you let me know what things will need to be considered for ISAM to DB2 conversion.
Also if the conversion can happen in one go or it has be done in a phased manner.
Thanks for your responses.
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enrico-sorichetti
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daveporcelan
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Can you suggest some tools for ISAM to DB2 conversion.
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I highly doubt there will be any 'tools' available for this. You will have to write a series of Conversion Programs to accomplish this.
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Also can you let me know what things will need to be considered for ISAM to DB2 conversion. |
You will have to consider the layout of each ISAM file.
Should each file become a DB2 table, or should files be split or combined?
What are the relationships between each file? Which are parents, which are children? What indexes are needed? What foreign keys are needed?
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Also if the conversion can happen in one go or it has be done in a phased manner. |
This should be carefully planned, and should take a while to complete.
It took our shop several years to successfully convert from VSAM to DB2. |
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Pete Wilson
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Is this an interview question? Has to be from someone with a keen sense of humour. Coincidental that there's been two ISAM queries recently. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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ISAM to DB2 migration should be mirrored as VSAM as they should be similar programs else talk to IBM and get the suggestions.
Do you have an ER diagram corresponds to ISAM file relations as yet?, if not then it is no good to even think how this can be done asdaveporcelan said clearly few of the important points. |
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Virendra Shambharkar
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Thanks all for the replies.
I have come across an IBM tool CICS VSAM Transparency which does a VSAM to DB2 migration . What I want to know if this tool is only for VSAM to DB2 Z/OS migration or this can be used for VSAM to DB2 LUW migration as well.
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Virendra. |
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PeterHolland
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I have come across an IBM tool CICS VSAM Transparency which does a VSAM to DB2 migration . What I want to know if this tool is only for VSAM to DB2 Z/OS migration or this can be used for VSAM to DB2 LUW migration as well. |
Why don't you read the documentation? |
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Virendra Shambharkar
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Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion . I tried to look here :- www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/cics-vt
but it mentions Z/OS only . I want to understand from migration VSAM/ISAM data to DB2 what would be the essential differences if it is DB2-Z/OS or DB2-LUW .
Thanks for your inputs. |
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Nic Clouston
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That depends on the differences between DB2on Z/OS and DB2 on LUW. Have you read up on this? Genereally it is the SQL functionality that is different - you should not need to worry about the underlying file formats as that is the job of DB2. |
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Bill Woodger
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Can you tell us which OS you are converting to, and which COBOL compiler you are using? |
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Bill Woodger
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Can you tell us which OS you are converting to, and which COBOL compiler you are using? |
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Virendra Shambharkar
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Hi,
Actually the source environment is ISAM/DIBOL . We need to migrate the the ISAM files to DB2-LUW and looking for some automation tools which can help achive this.
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enrico-sorichetti
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what happened when You googled with dibol |
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Akatsukami
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I don't believe there was ever a DIBOL compiler for the S/360 or its successors. Are you actually touching a mainframe anywhere in this process? |
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Bill Woodger
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Outside of the Mainframe, ISAM is a common generic name for file-systems allowing sequential or keyed access.
DB2 for LUW is different from that for z/OS. DiBOL is non-Mainframe. Are you even running Linux on the Mainframe? |
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