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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:CSC32::BUTTERWORTH
Created:Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1541
Total number of notes:6564

194.0. "VCS to PCM on OpenVMS VAX, what to do for migration?" by STRWRS::KOCH_P (It never hurts to ask...) Tue Feb 22 1994 19:03

    I have a customer who owns licenses for VCS. They have NOT installed
    this product. I recommended that they wait for PCM to become available,
    however, they want to know what is required to upgrade from VCS to PCM
    if they can't wait.
    
    Are there tools which will convert all the associated database file
    from VCS format to PCM format under OpenVMS VAX? 
    
    Thanks for your help...
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194.1Personally speaking ...ZENDIA::DBIGELOWInnovate, Integrate, EvaporateTue Feb 22 1994 20:5021
    
    Your customer needs nothing. PCM will honor VCS licenses, so there
    will be no cost to them. 
    
        This is your customer, but personally, it it were me, I'd advise
    them to start using VCS now. The concept is of both products are 
    closely related along with the look and feel. By doing this, your
    customer can do all the up front leg work of getting the console
    cabling completed. There is a conversion utility which will take a lot
    of the grunt work out of the migration. One other consideration is that 
    the event definitions probabilty won't be included with PCM. However,
    if they have VCS installed, they will be migrated into the new
    database.
    
    But then again, this is your customer and it's your shot. If they wait,
    it won't be the end of the world.
    
    Dave
194.2STRWRS::KOCH_PIt never hurts to ask...Tue Feb 22 1994 21:207
    Well, they want to move now. So, the question is what is the work
    required to move from VCS to PCM? 
    
    Why doesn't PCM have any pre-defined event filters?
    
    Would anyone in PCM engineering be willing to talk to my customer about
    the effort required to do the migration?
194.3ZENDIA::DBIGELOWInnovate, Integrate, EvaporateTue Feb 22 1994 22:5117
    Mostly learning. They will have to learn VCS and then PCM. As I stated
    earlier, learning VCS will foster their learning of PCM. Your customer
    doesn't necessarily have to understand all the complexities of using
    VCS, just the basic connectivity should do quite nicely.
    
    The event filters are are bear for us to maintain. We are trying to
    change the way we do business around here and trying to make the
    specific product developers provide the event definitions. 
    The objective is for our customers to get the latest and fullest set of
    event definitions. This is a rather large and touchey issue for us at
    the moment.
    
    If you like, you can arrange for a conference call with me. I don't
    mind and I starting to get used to it. Give me a buzz if you'd like to 
    go over this in any further detail.
    
    Dave