Summary
- Customer: Clothing retailer
- Country: Canada
- Product Used: Ispirer Toolkit License
- Source Technology: IBM DB2 AS/400
- Target Technology: Oracle
- Project Scope: 640,000 LOC
- Project Duration: 2015
Customer
We had the honour to work with one of the largest clothing and footwear retail chains in Canada opened more than 35 years ago. About 400 stores operating in the country represent their brand. As a member of Canadian Tire family of businesses, the company is continually investing in its growth and innovation. A well-known nationwide retailer provides their customers with quality casual, business and industrial apparel for men and women.
Challenge
The company has always run their IT infrastructure on IBM DB2 databases and managed to build a stable system. They decided that the Oracle RDBMS would enhance their efficiency taking into consideration their typical transactions with the databases. Ispirer developers were asked to provide a solution to migrate 3 thousand tables and 1TB of data to the target Oracle environment. The project was quite massive and involved migration of more than 640 thousand lines of code.
Solution
For the company seeking an efficient way to migrate DB2 AS/400 databases to Oracle, Ispirer Toolkit was a great option. After consultations with the client and analysis of target code requirements, Ispirer migration developers expanded the functionality of the software through introducing additional migration rules. A fully customized and tested Ispirer SQLWays Wizard was delivered to the client. After licensing of the Ispirer Toolkit for one year and six months, the client referred to Ispirer for the second time for additional licensing option to proceed with full move to Oracle.
Results & Advantages
The expanded functionalities of Ispirer Toolkit allowed us to provide the client with the database migration solution which meets their objective on reasonable cost. The client got a fully customized software version and was able to reach their migration goal in due timeframe.