Migrate Trusted Database with CA XCOM for Windows

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Windows
• XCOM Data Transport - z/OS
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC

Issue/Introduction

The previous installed version of XCOM for Windows was 11.0. After a new install of XCOM 11.6 on Windows server the Trusted configuration must be changed to a database.  Supported databases are MySQL, DB2, and Oracle.

See the resolution for Windows 12.0.

Environment

• XCOM™ Data Transport® for Windows
• XCOM™ Data Transport® for Linux PC

Resolution

The Trusted configuration had changed between 11.5 and 11.6. It will have to be redone. It now uses either a DB2 or MySql database. 

To migrate the XCOM trusted file from a XCOM V11 system to XCOM V11.6, please follow the instructions below: 

1. From V11 export the trusted registry path 
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ComputerAssociates\XCOM\REMOTESYSTEMTS 
2. On V11.6 do an import of the registry file 
3. Make sure that you’ve created the database created with the proper tables for Trusted 
4. Make sure you can connect to that database 
5. Run the XCOMTRST utility. 

See section Upgrade trusted database in the XCOM Windows 11.6 documentation.

See section Upgrade the trusted database in the XCOM Windows 12.0 documentation.

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Additional Information

Multiple Windows PCs and multiple Linux/UNIX workstations can share the same XCOM Trusted tables. So the full MySQL need only be installed once, but the MySQL ODBC driver must be installed on every platform that shares the database.