-----Paul Zarnowski wrote: ----- >Your avenue is export / import. Not pretty if you have a lot of >data. And I'm talking about the data, not just the database. >As I believe more people will be interested in switching server >platforms as time goes by, I would really like to see IBM provide >some better migration tools for helping sites transition from one >server platform to another. TSM is a high-end solution, and needs >better tools in this area (IMHO).
I work for a hospital. We are required to retain some clinical records for as long as 25 years (a former pediatric patient gets a seven year window after his or her eighteenth birthday to decide whether to sue the hospital). We are required to maintain information on employee health for the lifetime of the employee. We can't realistically commit to staying with our current server platform for decades to come, and the prospect of exporting and importing would get increasing daunting as long-lived archives accumulated. We are currently looking at options for long-term archiving of digital data, and the poor support for platformchanges is a major point against using TSM.
