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2768127 - Data Services repository migration steps - SAP Data Services

Component: EIM-DS-DEP (Deployment, Installation, Upgrade), Version: 4, Released On: 11.09.2023

Symptom

How to migrate Data Services repository from < SOURCE DATABASE > to < TARGET DATABASE >?
For Example:
How to migrate Data Services repository from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle?

Environment
SAP Data Services 4.2

Resolution
Work before migration:
1. Make sure all <SOURCE DATABASE> local repositories have same/latest version of code/objects prior to
migration.
2. Please create blank databases/schemas on <TARGET DATABASE> server where local and central repositories
will be moved/migrated. Appropriate permissions set, database user should be schema/DB owner
Steps to migrate local repositories:
1. From DS Designer logon to <SOURCE DATABASE> local repository and export to atl (Full repository)
2. From DS repository manager create a new local repository (In the blank schema in step 2 in Work before
migration)
3. Configure the <TARGET DATABASE> repository in the CMC (Created in step 2 above)
4. Associate the <TARGET DATABASE> repository to DS job server
5. From DS Designer logon to <TARGET DATABASE> local repository and import the atl created in step 1 in (Work
before migration). Save all. Start using it normally.
6. You can remove the <SOURCE DATABASE> repository configuration from CMC and job server
7. If you have any scheduled jobs, exported execution commands for existing jobs - they have to be re-created,
that's not something that can be migrated.
Step to migrate central repositories
1. You cannot migrate a central repository like you can migrate a local repository. That's why we ensure step 1
(Work before migration), so that <SOURCE DATABASE> central repository can be discontinued. In case source
and target databases of central repositories are same (both have to be <SOURCE DATABASE> or both <TARGET
DATABASE>), central repository can be preserved by copying database directly. In your case, it is moving from
<SOURCE DATABASE> to <TARGET DATABASE>, the only way to move using all existing objects is using some
external tools to move data from <SOURCE DATABASE> to <TARGET DATABASE>. Otherwise you should start
with a fresh/blank central repository.
2. From DS repository manager create a new secured central <TARGET DATABASE> repository (in the blank
schema created in Step 2 (Work before migration))
3. Configure the <TARGET DATABASE> central repository in the CMC (Created in Step 2 above)
4. From Data Services Management Console activate the central repository
5. From DS designer connect to central repository and start using normally. Central repository will be empty, and
you can start checking in and subsequently checking out objects from it.

Keywords
migration, database, source, target, central repository, local repository, repository, repositories, repo, migrate, DS,
Data services, how-to
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SAP Component Title
Note/KBA

1998521 EIM-DS-DEP Best Practices for upgrading older Data Integrator or Data Services repositories to the latest
version of Data Services

1630208 EIM-DI How to migrate local and central repositories from one DB server to another - DI / DS

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