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Transferring Non-ENVOX Databases

F Section 11

Installin g and Upgrading ENVOX

Configuration Software on DEC VAX and DEC AXP Systems (Revision B — May 1998)

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11 Transferring Non-ENVOX Databases

Section 5 of this installation manual shows how to use the installation

menu system to upgrade databases to P4.0. The upgrade process will

only work with ENVOXr databases. Any non-ENVOX databases will be

completely deleted from the system.

If you have Instrument Information System (IIS)t databases, you should

refer to the IIS backup and restore procedures for information.

If the non-ENVOX application is compatible with SYBASE 10.0, then the

option that should be considered first is to use the backup and restore

facilities of the application used to create the non-ENVOX databases.

As a last resort, the ENVOX supplied utility PDX can be used to transfer

the contents of non-ENVOX databases to text file s. PDX can then be

used to re-populate the database, following its creation with the

non-ENVOX application.

The PDX utility has been tested with ENVOX databases only.

Therefore its use on non-ENVOX databases cannot be

guaranteed by Fisher-Rosemount Systems. Hence, the use of

PDX on a non-ENVOX database is entirely at the users risk.

Note ...

A dump made from a 4.9.x server will not load into the 10.0.x

server which is the server version used in ENVOX P4.0.

Caution ...