WebSphere 8.5: Importing 6.1 Profile ends with "fail to deploy application isclite" - websphere

Question

On the 6.1 server I run...
$AdminTask exportWasprofile {-archive c:/tmp/my.car}
On the 8.5 server I see...
$AdminTask importWasprofile {-archive c:/tmp/my.car}
WASX7015E: Exception running command: "$AdminTask importWasprofile {-archive c:/
tmp/my.car}"; exception information:
com.ibm.wsspi.configarchive.ConfigArchiveException
com.ibm.wsspi.configarchive.ConfigArchiveException: fail to deploy application isclite
Is there something special I have to do to properly migrate profiles? Is there a place I can look to get more info as to what is going wrong?

Answer 1

From IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit's website:
The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Migration Toolkit is a suite of
tools and knowledge collections that enables your organization to
quickly and cost-effectively migrate to WebSphere Application Server
V7, V8, or V8.5, whether from a previous version of WebSphere
Application Server or competitive application servers including Apache
Tomcat Server, JBoss Application Server, Oracle Application Server,
and Oracle® WebLogic Server.
You should use it as it's bundled in WebSphere Application Server 6.1 (and higher) and offers two scripts that help you in the migration: WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade.
WASPreUpgrade "saves the configuration of a previously installed version of WebSphere Application Server into a migration-specific backup directory." while WASPostUpgrade "retrieves the saved configuration that was created by the WASPreUpgrade command from the backupDirectory that you specified." (quoting their pages).
Although they might be using wsadmin/Jython, I think you may have more success with these two command-line utilities.