Before you begin
Generate a report of the files to be moved or copied before you start the data movement
process. This report includes the relevant tags for each source file. A sample report is shown in
the following table:
Table 1. Report
generated for moving files
| Path |
Filename |
Filetype |
Datasource |
tagA |
tagB |
| / |
Chrysanthemum.jpg |
jpg |
dir1 |
image |
value1 |
| / |
Lighthouse.jpg |
jpg |
dir1 |
image |
value1 |
| / |
newtextfile.txt |
txt |
dir1 |
text |
value2 |
| / |
Hydrangeas.jpg |
jpg |
dir1 |
jpg |
value1 |
| / |
Thumbs.db |
db |
dir1 |
unknown |
value1 |
| / |
Koala.jpg |
jpg |
dir1 |
jpg |
value1 |
| / |
Desert.jpg |
jpg |
dir1 |
jpg |
value1 |
About this task
If IBM Spectrum®
Discover tags must be preserved during
data migration, then you can follow a manual procedure to ensure that the tags are preserved in the
moved or the copied files.
Procedure
-
Run the data movement process.
- Rescan the destination connection after the data movement completes
successfully.
- Refer to the information provided in the report, shown in Table 1 that was
generated before you started the data movement process, to identify the files for which you need to
preserve the tags.
Note: You can define a filter to identify and select the correct set of files that must be tagged.
For example, if we want to move files shown in
Table 1 to a new
datasource (ddsource), you can define filters that include the actions to be taken for the tag
values. For a filter defined as shown:
datasource in ('ddsource') and filetype in ('jpg')
You can create an AUTOTAG
policy that sets the value of
tagA to
image.
This process
assumes either of the two things.
- No other files belonging to these filetypes exist in the destination datasource.
- Those files can also be tagged with the
tagA values.
- Reapply the tags (for example,
tagA) on the moved or copied files by
using the auto tagging capability of IBM Spectrum
Discover.
Note:
You must perform a search using the above filters to check that it retrieves the correct
documents that are being selected. You can also sort, based on the report headings in MS Excel, to
identify a suitable filter.
It is not easy to identify a suitable filter to reapply the
tagB values shown in
Table 1 which
indicates the difficulty in manually reapplying the tags.
This solution is feasible only where you can define a small number of filters that identify the
groups of files to which you need to apply the tags. If filters cannot be defined then you must run
several AUTOTAG policies, which might be an impractical and tedious process.