Question Re: New Migration tools available in Technology Q&A

New Migration tools available

jpolus — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:41:30 GMT

Hi Everyone,

The latest version of the migration tools and documentation are available on SAP's Service Marketplace. Check out the migration homepage for links to the needed information. http://service.sap.com/nw-epmig

Note: the tools for the KM migration patch 8 are the correct version for the migration to SP14.

Happy Migrating.

John

Re: New Migration tools available

Former Member — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:47:59 GMT

Hi John, (or anyone else ???)

A couple of questions.

The Migration guide for EP60 SP2 indicated that supported source and target platforms include:

W2K -> W2K

W3K -> W3K

and the central note now has a statement that says:

"While support for the Windows 2003 platform as a target of EP migration has not yet been fully qualified, it has undergone preliminary tests and is an option"

The previos tools indicated that migrating from EP60SP2 W2K to NW04 W3K was not considered an OS chnage and therefor supported.

Does SAP still support a migration that has a source system at W2K with a target system at W3K ???

We are in this situation and we are hoping that this source target combination remain supported ...

Stephen

Re: New Migration tools available

jpolus — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:50:16 GMT

Hi Stephen,

Here is the best way I can put it. Technically it is not supported for a couple of reasons. First the original documentation said no OS changes allowed and W2000 to W2003 was a change. Even though several presentations listed it as OK. Those have since been updated.

Then main reason however it has been updated in the note now is that there was never a specific test run by validation at SAP to test that combination. So officially SAP can't support it if it hasn't been validated.

So what dose this mean to you. First, it doesn't mean that SAP doesn't support the portal on W2003. It does. It is just the migration tool. Will it work? probably. I haven't personally done it to 2003 but I have migrated from a w2000/SQLSvr to a NW04 portal on my laptop running XP/SQLSrv (which isn't supported) and it was fine. What I can't say is if you try it and run into problems what will be supports reply.

I'd like to here from anyone else who has done the migration and see if they had any issues because of the switch from W2000 to W2003

Thanks,

John

Re: New Migration tools available

Former Member — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:01:55 GMT

John, that is the answer I needed. ( I may not like it but it helps me understand where I am at.)I will keep an eye on our migration and post anything that I think worthy of sharing with other folks who would most likey be in a similar sitaution.

Thanks

Stephen