IBM DB2 Migration Toolkit (MTK)

MTK helps you to migrate from relational database systems like MySQL, Oracle 

and Microsoft SQL Server to DB2 UDB.

The tool can be used to generate 

Data Definition Language (DDL) 

scripts to 

create a database, tables, indexes and primary keys in DB2 UDB based on an 

existing MySQL database.

It also supports you retrieving data out of a MySQL database and importing the 

data into the created DB2 UDB database.

In our sample project we used MTK on the following steps:

Extract DDL from our MySQL sample database

Convert DDL to DB2 UDB syntax

Create the DB2 database

Create the DB2 database structure

Export MySQL data

Import data into DB2 UDB

If you want to download MTK or get more information about it, please refer to:

http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/migration/mtk/

Other available migration tools

Some other tools can be found on the Internet including the following (among 

others). These tools and services are not provided by IBM, nor does IBM make 

guarantees about the usage of these tools:

SQLPorter

A commercial software by RealSoftStudio Inc. for Windows operating system. 

For further details see 

http://www.realsoftstudio.com

SQLWays

A commercial tool by Ispirer Systems for Windows operating system. For 

more details see 

http://www.inspirer.com

2.4  The migration process

For accurate planning it is important to understand the steps to complete the 

migration project. To estimate the project effort correctly and migrate the 

database and application successfully, each of the steps should be planned. 

Figure 2 2 shows the basic migration process steps.

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