Preface

This document provides an overview of the Oracle Communications MetaSolv Solution (MSS) Data Selection Tool. It also provides procedures on how you can use the Data Selection Tool to migrate the product catalog, equipment specifications, and provisioning plans from one release of your environment to another.

Audience

This document is for individuals who are responsible migrating data from one release of a MSS environment to another. This document assumes that the reader has a working knowledge of data migration.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the MSS 6.3 documentation set:

  • MSS Planning Guide: Describes information you need to consider in planning your MSS environment prior to installation.

  • Installation Guide: Describes system requirements and installation procedures for installing MSS.

  • MSS System Administrator's Guide: Describes post-installation tasks and administrative tasks such as maintaining user security.

  • MSS Security Guide: Provides guidelines and recommendations for setting up MSS in a secure configuration.

  • MSS Database Change Reference: Provides information on the database changes in MSS releases.

  • MSS Network Grooming User's Guide: Provides information about the MSS Network Grooming tool.

  • MSS Address Correction Utility User's Guide: Provides information about the MSS Address Correction utility.

  • MSS Technology Module Guide: Describes each of the MSS technology modules.

  • MSS CORBA API Developer's Reference: Describes how MSS APIs work, high-level information about each API, and instructions for using the APIs to perform specific tasks.

  • MSS Custom Extensions Developer's Reference: Describes how to extend the MSS business logic with custom business logic through the use of custom extensions.

  • MSS Web Services Developer's Guide: Describes the MSS Web Services and provides information about the MSS Web Service framework that supports web services, the various web services that are available, and how to migrate existing XML API interfaces to web service operations.

For step-by-step instructions for tasks you perform in MSS, log into the application to see the online Help.

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