Converting Metadata for Environments and Warehouses

Creating a Directory Structure for the New Environment

The Metadata Conversion wizard requires you to specify directories for the converted Warehouse Environment and for each of its Data Warehouses. The wizard will not automatically create these directories. Accordingly, you might want to create these directories before starting the Metadata Conversion wizard. Keep the following in mind as you create these directories:

The destination directories must be different from the ones storing the original metadata.
The destination directories that you specify for the converted metadata repositories must be empty.
The Warehouse Environment metadata repository should have a unique pathname, and each Data Warehouse metadata repository should have a unique pathname.

Here is an example of a valid directory structure for an Environment (_env) and two Data Warehouses:

.\Project-2\_env
.\Project-2\_wh1
.\Project-2\_wh2

Later, you might want to add directories for any local data stores, code libraries, or other local resources that will eventually be part of the new Warehouse Environment. These directories are not required for metadata conversion, however.

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