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Hi IFS Data Migration Friends!

In APPS 10, using the migration Toolkit, we had an extremely useful feature available to us when migrating large containers called the "Container Processing Rates" form.

In that form you were able to see how the processing of that container was doing, how many rows were migrated per minute and how many errors were generated as the deploy unfolds in real time. It looked like this:

I miss my Container Processing Rates features :(

For large containers, this was an early warning that we may need to wait for 3 or 4 hours to see this container fully migrated. It would let us investigate some errors while we waited for the migration to complete. It even help us to early-detect a few cases where the migration simply "got stuck" and nothing was moving ahead. Fast forward to the Data Migration Manager and now it seems that all that functionality is lost.

Is there any place were we can find something similar? Although the “Background Jobs” screen let me see that a migration is running (if I execute in the background) it is nothing compared to what we had before. There is no way to see how many rows have been processed so far nor any information to predict when it will end (unless there is something like that and I’m not looking at the right place).

Any ideas on how to obtain something similar in IFS Cloud's Data Migration Manager?

 

Thanks!

Hi ​@msurasky-price,

IFS remove many options from Cloud. But on version 24R2 they are putting in place a new procedure called HIGH VOLUME DATA MIGRATION. It is supposed to make this easy, but still don’t having the old migration monitor.

I’ve never used that Migration ToolKit, because it’s not a standard feature. I think it came from one or the other region (IFS NA, perhaps), who added it to customer installations.

Thanks for your replies guys…

​@gianni.neves It is nice to know that IFS is adding this new type of migration to the simple tool, but it is NOT addressing the issue many of us have related with monitoring a running migration in the Data Migration Manager. I’m sure you can relate to this situation (and it is not just an IFS thing...) when you trigger a process without any progress indicator and you are not sure whether to kill it because MAYBE it is going to finish in a few minutes. Yet maybe it can take a full day, there is no way to know….

 

​@AussieAnders Yes, the Migration Toolkit is mostly used in IFS NA. I’m in Canada and I have heard that other people used it extensively in the past. I am a bit disappointed with the Data Migration Manager in this respect, I would have expected some sort of progress being reported, especially considering some of this containers can take hours to complete.

Maybe it makes it for a good candidate for feature request.

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