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Migrate the P6 data

Migrate the P6 data - COBOL Tutorial

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Migrate the P6 data

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- [Instructor] Having created the database, the Prima migration tool can then be used to migrate the data. The first step in data migration is to create load modules. These are COBOL programs which are generated to read the ISAM file and put the data into the SQL database. These are compiled and executed by the migration tool to do the data migration. The generate load modules tab is where we can create the COBOL code to read the ISAM files and write the data into the SQL database. We can select the ISAM files to load using the select metadata button. Once we've pressed, okay, process my options, the load modules will be generated. Notes that this tab is where we specify the date format we have in the existing COBOL code. And the load module generator will automatically create the correct date time fields. We can set the default date to use in case it finds any invalid dates in the ISAM data. In the migration folder…

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