Data Stage Installation multiple versions

Poovalingam · Post by **Poovalingam** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:01 am

Hi Everybody,
Can we have multiple data stage version get installed in a same server?
I'm not trying to do installation. I just thought of this point since I have come across with few data stage upgradation projects. I haven't seen anywhere using same server for 2 versions.

Regards,
Poovalingam.

BI-RMA · Post by **BI-RMA** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:08 am

Yes, this is possible. You have to make sure that two different installations do not share resources that they can't. Most of this is handled automatically during installation, but not all of it.

We installed 8.5 parallel to 8.0.1 for a migration-test once. No issues there.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 7:54 pm

This has become the preferred approach for upgrading 8.x versions as it lets you use the Migration tool from the IBM migration concierge team. The migration tool moves content from 8.0.1, 8.1 or 8.5 and move it into 8.7 running on the same server.

Poovalingam · Post by **Poovalingam** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:27 am

Thanks all. It's good to know that tools are preferred for migration. TA.

Regards,
Poovalingam.

nabeela · Post by **nabeela** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:16 am

vmcburney wrote:This has become the preferred approach for upgrading 8.x versions as it lets you use the Migration tool from the IBM migration concierge team. The migration tool moves content from 8.0.1, 8.1 or 8.5 and move it into 8.7 running on the same server.

There is situation where half of the jobs from a project need to be migrated & running into new version of DS and half of the jobs are still running in old version in production environment, that need to be migrated into new version in the second phase.
Here is question, can two version of DS jobs be run simultaneously from the same project? If yes, what are the things need to take care?

Any documentations/link will be great?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:21 am

The short answer is no. Projects are specific to the installation / version of DataStage.

nabeela · Post by **nabeela** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:44 am

Can we keep both the versions running simultaneously? Run some projects from old version and some from the new version on the same server?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:23 am

Yes, that will work - the same job can run simultaneously on one machine from two different projects; assuming that they don't use some single-threaded type resource such as writing to the same sequential file.

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Data Stage Installation multiple versions

Data Stage Installation multiple versions

Is it possible to run two version of DS jobs simultaneously?