One wonders why they are bothering with a migration tool kit. What Informix
site in their right minds is going to migrate from INformix to DB2 having
seen the IBM track record to date. Most of them will already have done the
migration to Orrible or SQUEAL :-0

Malcolm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com>
To: "'Neil Truby'" <neil.truby@ardenta.com>; <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: RE: IDS to DB2 conversion


> Our first *crack* at the MTK was a joke. It didn't work, having said
that,
> I think our version was an ALPHA version. The joke is that IBM has owned
> Informix going on 3 years now and the MTK is just now getting into beta...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 8:20 PM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: IDS to DB2 conversion
>
>
> Is anyone aware of a migration tool for Informix DS 9.4 to DB2 UDB v8.1
> conversions?
>
> The DB2 Migration toolkit works only for Oracle and SQL Server (and then
> only for an ageing version of DB2 and antediluvian ones of SQL Server).
>
> thanks
> Neil
>
> sending to informix-list
>

sending to informix-list

malcolm.iiug wrote:

>
> One wonders why they are bothering with a migration tool kit. What
> Informix site in their right minds is going to migrate from INformix to
> DB2 having
> seen the IBM track record to date. Most of them will already have done
> the migration to Orrible or SQUEAL :-0

Because the process was started three years ago and no-one can bring
themselves to stop it.

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