Creating the migration project

After you have done the migration analysis and customized the migration tool for your special needs, you start doing the migration by creating an migration project.

To create an migration project, do the following:

  1. From the WebSphere® Integration Developer menu, select File > New > Other.
    Select File-New-Others
  2. In the dialog box that pops up, expand Branch Transformation Toolkit, and then select BTT Migration Project. Click Next.
    Select BTT Migration Project
  3. From the Dse.ini panel, you select the dse.ini file of the project you are migrating.
    DSE.ini file panel
    You can choose the dse.ini file in the following ways:
    • By selecting the dse.ini from your local directory.

      To do this, you select the From URL option, and click the Select DSE button to browse to your dse.ini file and select it.

    • By selecting the EAR file that contains the dse.ini file.

      To do this, you select the From EAR option, and click the Select EAR button to browse to your EAR file and select it. You can then select the dse.ini file from the Select DSE File list.

    Note: The migration tool only migrates server-side application components, so make sure you the dse.ini file you selected is the server-side one.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Enter the name of your migration project and select the project location. Click Next.
    Enter the name of the migration project
After you create the migration project, you can find all related 4.3 definition file are copied. and the projects of EAR, EJB, Web and Services are also created.
Screen capture showing all the definition files of 4.3 are copied.