2

Planning the migration from 

Chapter 2.

MySQL to DB2 UDB

As proper planning influences the success of a project significantly, this chapter 

discusses the overall migration project planning including the considerations 

before porting, assessment, and porting steps. The migration process, which are 

discussed in detail in the following chapters, are as follows:

Project planning

Application assessment and system planning

The migration process

  Porting preparation and installation

  Database structure porting

  Data porting

  Application porting

  Basic administration

  Testing and tuning

This chapter informs you about how IBM migration specialists can support you in 

your migration project in any of the steps. The available migration tools such as 

the 

IBM DB2 Migration Toolkit (MTK) 

are also discussed.

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