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This type of stuff really helps our efforts to keep on IDS. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/sap/informix-db2.html -- Sam

> -----Original Message----- > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On > Behalf Of Gentsch, Samuel > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:17 AM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: This type of stuff really helps our efforts to.... [9290] > > This type of stuff really helps our efforts to keep on IDS. > > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/sap/informix-db2.html > > -- > Sam When can we expect to see the DB2-to-IDS migration package? Or, is anyone using SAP on DB2? ;-) Paul M.

>> This type of stuff really helps our efforts to keep on IDS. >> >> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/sap/informix-db2.html >> >> -- >> Sam > When can we expect to see the DB2-to-IDS migration package? Or, is > anyone using SAP on DB2? ;-) > Paul M. Yes, there are SAP customers on DB2 , even some former IDS customers. The free migration offer is nothing new, I think it has been inplace since 2004 or so. At that time SAP was thinking that reducing the number of supported databases was a good idea to cut costs and Mrs Perna from IBM asked herself how to increase number of DB2 installations in SAP environment. So the two companies decided to desupport IDS for future SAP versions. IDS customer who want or need to upgrade to such a new SAP version will have to migrate their database. It is obvious that most IDS customers would choose DB2 anyway, (wouldn't they?) however, to make their decision even easier IBM offered 'free' migration support (SAP still asks for migration fees, but that's a different thing). DB2 to Informix migration for SAP? - well unless SAP reverts its decision to desupport IDS, I think it won't make much sense. HTH Tilman