Re: Copy data from DB2 (Linux) to PG

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:28 AM Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1@aol.com> wrote:
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> I have a project to develop a script/tool to copy data from DB2 to PG.  The approach I am thinking is
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> 1. Export data from db2 in a text file, with, say pipe as delimiter.
> 2. Load the data from the text file to PG using COPY command.

I've never used it, but there is this in case it's helpful:
https://github.com/dalibo/db2topg/

> In order to make it faster I can parallelize export and load with upto X number of tables concurrently.
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> Is there a tool in which I can avoid first exporting and then loading.  I think one way I can do it is by
> using pipes by which I can export from db2 to a pipe and simultaneously load it to PG using COPY.
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> Any other tool for this job?

Is the DB2 side static or being actively updated?