We have moved from Unix V5 on Motorola, to Solaris 2.6, to Solaris 8, to RH Linux AS3, and are now in the process of moving to Windows 2008. Also during that time we moved from UV 7.4, to 9.6, to 10.1, to 10.2. All of the 'Nix moves were relatively simple because the operating systems were relatively the same. The easiest way to move, if possible, is to use uvbackup and uvrestore. All magic numbers are taken care of. If you are copying the files a different way then you will have to do fnuxi on the files. On Solaris if you're moving from a RISC system to and Intel system or visa-versa then you will have to do the same thing. Going into Universe the first time will cause an account update which will most likely cause you to lose the long file names option (LONGNAMES ON will fix this) and will overwrite any reserved commands you may have changed for your own convenience. You should do a COMPILE.DICTS to compile all of the dictionary I-Descriptors, compile all of the programs, and catalog any programs that are globally cataloged. Any programs/procs/paragraphs/scripts containing operating system commands should be tested. If you have distributed files they will have to be broken apart. If you change the path to your account any VOC items containing the path will have to be changed. It's always best to test everything on the new system before doing the move for real. When we moved between 'Nix systems it only took a Saturday and one person that knew what they were doing. The length of time all depends on how much data you are moving. You can always set up the VOC file ahead of time and just copy all of the other files over when you go live. Moving to Windows is a different animal. You have to do the same things as moving between 'Nix systems but you also have to find new ways of manipulating your spooled reports. That is, if you have any specially built spooler driver scripts. The spooler no longer exists as it does on the 'Nix systems. I don't know why they couldn't have just done the same as they did on the 'Nix systems. We've just started getting into this conversion so I can't tell how it will turn out yet.
Jerry Banker -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oaks, Harold Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:38 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] hpux to linux We have Rocket's Universe 10.2 over hpux 11.11 but are considering moving to a linux box. Has anyone ported a U2 app from hpux to linux? I am trying to estimate for management how long such a porting might take. Just an opinion would be helpful, like 'easy', 'medium', 'hard', 'really hard'. Thanks- Harold Oaks Clark County This e-mail and related attachments and any response may be subject to public disclosure under state law. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
