Hey Clive,
We did our 6.1 Progress -> 9.05 Progress conversion with the assistance
of a VAR who had done this before. The process went like this:
- set up 3 test servers (virtual machines) with installs of
8.03, 9.04 and 9.05
- restore our 6.1 progress database onto the 8.03 machine
- run 8.03 admin tools on that machine & let all the automatic
upgrade conversions run (takes hours)
- repeat with 8.03 database on 9.04 machine & 9.04 database on
9.05 machine
This converts your data. We choose to re-implement our customized
reports etc because of the major changes from 6.1.
We repeated this a couple times for testing, and fought some bugs along
the way. Call me (519-944-3800 ext 294) if you want more details.
Brian.
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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Clive
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 6:51 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Vantage 8.x Progress to Epicor 9.x MS SQL,
process involved ?
Hi Brian,
I'm very interested in how you achieved step (a) without using an Epicor
specific tools or assistance.
Is this somethign you're able to provide more info on ?.
Thanks.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Brian Roberts" <broberts@...> wrote:
Behalf
We did our 6.1 Progress -> 9.05 Progress conversion with the assistance
of a VAR who had done this before. The process went like this:
- set up 3 test servers (virtual machines) with installs of
8.03, 9.04 and 9.05
- restore our 6.1 progress database onto the 8.03 machine
- run 8.03 admin tools on that machine & let all the automatic
upgrade conversions run (takes hours)
- repeat with 8.03 database on 9.04 machine & 9.04 database on
9.05 machine
This converts your data. We choose to re-implement our customized
reports etc because of the major changes from 6.1.
We repeated this a couple times for testing, and fought some bugs along
the way. Call me (519-944-3800 ext 294) if you want more details.
Brian.
________________________________
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Clive
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 6:51 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Vantage 8.x Progress to Epicor 9.x MS SQL,
process involved ?
Hi Brian,
I'm very interested in how you achieved step (a) without using an Epicor
specific tools or assistance.
Is this somethign you're able to provide more info on ?.
Thanks.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Brian Roberts" <broberts@...> wrote:
>didn't
> We did this recently and our database conversion was two stage:
>
> (a) 6.1 Progress -> 9.05 Progress (several steps, using the Epicor
> upgrade programs on a separate server).
>
> (b) 9.05 Progress -> 9.05 SQL database conversion done by Epicor. We
> decided early on to pay for one-time events like this conversion,
> investigate doing it ourselves. Ours was ~16 hours for this stage,plus
> a couple hours transfer to & from Epicor.an
>
>
>
> We didn't use DMT for any of this, but I know others have used it as
> alternative to the path we took.[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
>
>
>
> Brian.
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>
> ________________________________
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Behalf
> Of Cliveas
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:43 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] Vantage 8.x Progress to Epicor 9.x MS SQL, process
> involved ?
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>
>
>
>
> For numerous reasons when making the upgrade from Vantage 8.x with
> Progress as the db to Epicor 9 we're choosing to move over to MS SQL
> the db (third party apps, reporting etc).Also
>
> I don't see this as a complicated task, just very time consuming ?.
> I'm presuming that Epicor will see this as a perfect opportunity tosell
> their consulting services.(ridiculously
>
> Most of what we need is already in place, the new hardware
> high specced, crazy fast storage) and the E9 licensing, I just need toget
> add the MS SQL licensing and configure the server. I'm to setup and
> install the server myself, I'll need very little assistance but will
> the install validated before go live.the
>
> So I'm presuming that the donkey work will be using the DMT, getting
> procedure 100% perfect so that the data can be reliably moved over atusing
> any point in time ?. For some background we're multi company, and
> Altec as well.[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> Has anyone here been in a similar situation ?.
>
> Thanks.
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