Here's some information on DMU - seems like you may want to check into it a bit more: http://www.oracleimg.com/technetwork/products/globalization/dmu/learnmore/configurations-333837.html http://www.oracleimg.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/globalization/dmu/overview/index.html There should be instructions for Linux on there I would think? Chris On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Scott Canaan <srcdco@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a database that has to be converted from US7ASCII to AL32UTF8 > before the application can be upgraded. I tried using the CSSCAN tool and > it told me that I can’t do it that way because data would be lost. I’m > trying to figure out how to run the dmu tool, but the instructions that I > have from the vendor are all for Windows servers and we run in Red Hat 6, > so it isn’t working. The database version is 11.2.0.3. Has anyone fought > through this (as it appears to not be a simple task)? If so, can you give > me some pointers on how to make it work? Or is there a simpler way to do > this? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Scott Canaan ’88 (srcdco@xxxxxxx) > > (585) 475-7886 – work > > “Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into > it.” – Tom Lehrer > > >