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Appendix: Data Migration Prerequisites

Updated on December 12, 2023

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This content applies to On-premises, Client-managed cloud and Pega Cloud environments

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REQUIRED ACTIONS 

DATE COMPLETED 

DATE COMPLETED 

CLIENT 

PEGA 

Provision data migration tooling environments in the VPC for connecting and working directly with the environments and databases in the VPC. 

N/A 

 

Pega shares the windows box and replication instance IP with the Client. 

N/A 

 

Client adds the replication instance IP to the allow list to allow remote connections to the on-prem database. 

 

N/A 

 
 

 

 
 

N/A 

Pega tests connectivity between data migration tools and Source Database and troubleshoots connectivity issues, if any. 

N/A 

 

Download DB clients based on the requirement and install them on the Windows box. Additionally, download DB driver jars as required. Also download the target version Pega build.  

N/A 

 

Enable SSL Connection between Windows Box and client endpoint (if required)

  • Generate and exchange certificates for source and destination endpoints
  • Install certificates on source and destination endpoints

 

 

Pega tests connectivity between data migration tools and Source Database and troubleshoots connectivity issues, if any.

N/A 

 

Download and install the latest version of AWS SCT tool in the Windows box for DB schema conversion. 

N/A 

 

Run queries in the source DB to identify any tables without primary keys, and those having BLOB data.  Share the results with the client. 

N/A 

 

Apply primary keys to tables that have BLOB data. 

Check for database partitioning tables used in the application. 

Note: Partitioning is not supported in Pega Cloud. Pega recommends converting to flat files before migration. 

 

N/A 

 

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