installation of DataStage 7.1 on Windows PC

eoyylo · Post by **eoyylo** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:19 am

Hi,
is it possible to install Datastage 7.1 server, director, manager and designer in a pc without unistall DataStage 5.2?

I' d like to have both version in the same pc.

thanks in advance

Regards

Mario

mleroux · Post by **mleroux** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:16 am

You may not be able to, because of the NT services that make up the DataStage server.

How about trying to install DS 5.2 and 7.1 on two seperate virtual machines? You can download VMWare Workstation and see if that works for you.

datastage · Post by **datastage** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:59 am

I've heard that Morney le Roux's recommendation works, although I wouldn't want to mess with it. The easier part is running 2 versions of client on the same machine with 1 server. There is no natural way to run 2 versions of DS Server on an NT machine, although to be technical there probably is a way with much work and modifications to do it.

mleroux · Post by **mleroux** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:17 am

Virtual machine software like VMWare is pretty powerful, yet quite easy to work with. These fancy things aren't the minefields they used to be.

Another nice thing is that one can share resources (such as files and databases of course!

) between virtual machines, making it easy to test the same thing on two different versions of DataStage.

As Byron said, the most straightforward and easy way is to do different version clients to one server. But if you really want to test different server versions, go for seperate machines or virtual machines. I don't think it's worth tampering with the registry etc. until you get two server versions running on one box.