Migrating

In the context of TDI, "migrating" can mean a number of things.

• Prepare relevant files (and their contents) to be used in a new location, on the same machine or a different one; or

• prepare relevant files to be used with a new version of the product.

The following table summarizes migration scenarios:

Table 1. Migration scenarios

Source & Destination versions equal?	Source & Destination install paths equal?	Scenario description
no	no	Migrate files to a new version, which is installed in a different location
no	yes	Migrate files to a new version, which will be installed in the same location
yes	no	Migrate files to a different installation of the same version
yes	yes	Restore backed up files to their original location

If we have to both migrate to a new version and a new location, we should do the version upgrade first, because here we will cover location migration only for the current release (7.1).

The IBM TDI Installer can assist in migrating from TDI 6.0 and TDI 6.1.X to TDI 7.1.