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Message Posted: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 @ 15:00:04 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: Using Arcmain across software releases |
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| From: | | Victor Sokovin |
Anomy Anom wrote:
| | Is there any way to use ARCMAIN to dump data from a system running V2R5 and copy it to a system running V2R4? I don't think it can be done
because I tested with ARCMAIN 07.00.00 (from TTU 7.0), and got this error on the copy: | |
| | *** Failure ARC1243:Backward restore/copy across major release not supported. system formats: source (5), target (4) | |
| | But I just wanted to double check whether anyone knows of anyway to get around this restriction (other than export/load). | |
I did not try it but I think ARCMAIN might have a problem with such an operation as internal table storage structures have changed
significantly between the releases. As a fast bulk utility ARCMAIN might be using them, and V2R5 dumps simply won't fit into the old R4 table
definitions.
Victor
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