If you are upgrading from a previous version and want to move your Sybase IQ databases to a different supported hardware platform, perform the conversion before you upgrade your data to Sybase IQ 15.0.
Use the procedure “Migrating databases to a 64–bit machine” in the Sybase IQ Installation and Configuration Guide for Sybase IQ 12.7 to convert the database to the 64–bit hardware platform.
For information about migrating a database from one platform to another with the same endian structure, see “Converting to a new hardware platform” for specific steps.
After you change upgrade your hardware platform, follow the appropriate workflow in “Migrating Data” to migrate your databases.