Sybase®/DB2 MIGRATION ESTIMATE REQUEST

To request a Sybase to DB2 Migration Estimate from IBM, simply send an e-mail to: db2mig@us.ibm.com and an IBM DB2 Migration Specialist will contact you to initiate the estimation activity and explain the process to you.

Please use the following phrase in the e-mail subject heading:

For a Sybase to DB2 Migration Estimate we will need to gather and discuss the following profiles and metrics with you, using a structured document that will be sent to you.

Primary motivators to moving and success measurements:

• Improved Performance
• Reduced Ownerships/Operating Costs
• Access to Skills
• Industrial DB Reliability
• Industrial DB Scalability
• DB Architectural Flexibility
• Improved Data Integration

Source Sybase Environment:

• Source operating system, maintenance level and hardware platform
• Number of Sybase instances, release levels and maintenance levels
• Tables - column structures, complex relationships, sizes, data types used, row sizes, number of rows, average number of rows per table, largest table size
• Indexes - number of indexes, average number of indexes per table, largest index
• Sybase Stored Procedures - numbers, complexity, samples, average lines of code per stored procedure, nesting, samples, etc.
• DB Triggers - complexity, samples, average lines of code per trigger
• Columns - data type inventory, are BLOB's used, etc.
• Replication used
• Database maintenance schedules and scripts
• T-SQL used (samples),DBlib, used, CTlib used
• Number of Sybase applications and their processing profile (online, batch, web, read-only, WAP, etc.)
• Any ISV Applications involved (SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, etc.)
• Any custom code and code profile (language, development and testing)
• Primary development languages and tools (C, Java, IBM Visual Age, Powerbuilder, Visual Basic, JAVA, C, C++, Visual C++, COBOL, other)
• Middleware used

Target DB2 Environment:

• Operating system and hardware platform
• Development languages and tools
• Middleware