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Migrate Your Existing Knowledge Base

If you are migrating multiple synchronized regions, you only perform this task for the first focal region. You do not have to perform this task when migrating subsequent regions because when you link the regions, the knowledge base is synchronized.

Important! Keep the old knowledge base until your new product regions are performing correctly.

Follow these steps:

1. Shut down the region using your existing knowledge base.
2. From the new product region, enter /RAMUTIL.M.

   The RAMDB Migration Utility panel appears.

3. Perform the following steps:
   1. Specify the data set name for your existing RAMDB in the Old RAMDB Data Set Name field.

      The data set name is dsnpref.rname.RAMDB.

   2. Specify NO in the Selective Migration field to migrate all definitions.

      The utility migrates only customized definitions from the old knowledge base to the knowledge base in the new product region. Definitions that are not migrated are listed for further action.

   3. Press F6 (Action) to display the Migration Statistics panel.
4. After migration has completed, perform the following steps:
   1. Look for the components that have a non-zero value in the Not Copied column. (The utility does not copy a component if the component exists in the new knowledge base.)

      You might have customized some of these components and want to copy them.

   2. Enter R next to the components that you want to copy, and copy the records.

      The copying options depend on whether a component contains multiple objects, such as a system image, or is the object itself, such as a user profile definition.

5. After you have copied the components, exit the migration utility.

Note: If you do not want to move directly from your established regions to the new product regions, you can run the two releases in parallel.