Migrate Assistant

The Migrate Assistant is designed to simplify and automate Gen object migration. Integrated enabling object checking reduces the chance of failed migrates whilst integrated task management enables easy to use overnight batch processing of the migrates.

The Migrate Assistant is available for both the host and client/server encyclopaedias. It is designed to be used as a complementary tool to GuardIEn. Whereas GuardIEn controlled migrations are designed to manage object migrates as part of a disciplined and managed development life-cycle, the Migrate Assistant is especially useful for more ad-hoc, on-demand migrates.

Easier...

• The Migrate is defined using a simple Graphical User Interface client. Multiple models can be targeted with a simple click of the mouse.

• There are a variety of tools to help scope objects into the migrate, for example a fast object list with full wild card selection, selection based on associations to other objects and copying from a 'when changed' list.

• The selection tools are common to GuardIEn and all of the Assist products, thus making it easier to learn and use.

• The Migrate Assistant automatically schedules an Assist task (on the HE and CSE) or batch job (on the HE) to accomplish the migrate.

• Helps determine that a migrate was successful by checking the encyclopaedia after the migration job has completed and reporting on any failures.

• Multiple models can be scoped into a single migration definition, for example, a new common action block or entity type could be distributed from a shared objects model to multiple development models by a single Migrate Assistant task.

• Automates cross encyclopaedia migration for the client/server encyclopaedia.

• A specification migrate capability has been included to support CBD projects. This will automate the process of migrating an 'implementation' action block to a 'specification' or 'catalog' model, automatically removing the action block statements and local/entity action views. This removes the need to manually download the implementation action block from a temporary model to convert it into a specification.

Reliable...

• Integrated enabling object and subset protection checking reduce the number of failed migrates due to missing or checked-out objects.

• Missing enabling objects are automatically added and a report is produced detailing the objects that have been included in the migration.

• Migrations can be submitted for overnight execution because of the higher confidence that the migration will succeed, thus reducing prime-time contention on the encyclopaedia.