Exporting data from eRMM

After you have prepared your eRMM environment for migration, you must export the data from the eRMM database, then uninstall eRMM components.

About this task

Requirement: You must observe additional requirements and other information that supplement this section of the guide. In addition to the instructions and steps in this section, you must follow the instructions and steps that are contained in the following file:
  • tslm/migration/How_to_Migrate_from_eRMM

From your eRMM environment, complete the following sequence of tasks:

Procedure

  1. Start only the eRMM Media Manager.
  2. Open a command-line session and switch to user ermm.
  3. Stage all the eRMM data files that must be imported to TSLM:
    1. Go to the /home/ermm/migration directory and run export_from_ermm.
    2. After export_from_ermm completes, verify that the eRMM data files are under the directory /home/ermm/migration/data .
  4. Stop the Media Manager.
  5. Uninstall all the components of eRMM.
  6. Drop the eRMM DB2® database:
    1. Switch to user ermm
    2. Issue this command: db2 drop db ermm

What to do next

Proceed to the next phase of the migration process, Meeting DB2 requirements