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Code migration from Windows to Unix
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:01 pm
by babbu9
Hi
We have Oracle 10g and DS Server 7.5 edition. I was wondering if we could migrate the code developed in windows to an AIX platform (DS7.5.1) later.
Should we use dsx or xml files.What will be the issues.
Please inform
Bob
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:09 pm
by kcbland
The .dsx export does not matter. What matters is in the job designs themselves any system calls to DOS specific commands need porting, as well as the slash usage, "\" needs to be "/".
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:51 pm
by vmcburney
I have had problems importing xml files on AIX 7.5.1A and now just go with DSX. Do a test export and import of one complex job first to see if it works and if all the required stages are installed in your target project.
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:31 am
by chulett
Me, I'd only use XML exports if the target for them was something
other than DataStage. Otherwise, I don't see the point of all that extra work that the import has to do. When you import an XML export, the first thing it has to do under the covers is
convert it back to dsx format and
then import it.
On large imports - like entire projects - this can take a
long time. Emphasis on the word 'long'.
And even better reason would be Vincent's, if the conversion is known to hork things up on occassion.