Exporting applications

You can export applications from one IBM® InfoSphere® Information Services Director environment and import them into another InfoSphere Information Services Director environment to back up or deploy these applications on the second system.

About this task

The EXPORT command is supported for design time and runtime applications.

On design time project resources, ISD Designers, ISD Administrators, or ISD Operators can use this command to export all or selected applications and services from the project. An XML file is generated for each exported project or each group of applications that belong to the same project.
On runtime applications, ISD Administrators and ISD Operators can use this command to export all or selected applications. A DAT file is generated for each exported application or each group of services that belong to the same application.

Note: Application names and service names are optional, if they are not specified all applications and their services in the project are exported. You can use the -omitPassword option to exclude the password from the exported XML for design time export. Also, you can use the -omitPassword option to exclude the password from the exported DAT file for run time export.

Procedure

Open a command line editor.

To export design time applications and services, enter the following command:

ISDImportExport -action designtimeexport -p <project name> 
-a <application name> -s <service name>
-output <full path name of the target XML file>

To export a run time application, enter the following command:

ISDImportExport -action runtimeexport -a <application name> 
-output <full path name of the target DAT file>

Example

The following examples describe how to export design time project resources:

Export all the design time applications in the project:

ISDImportExport -action designtimeexport -p <project name> -output <full path name of the folder or the file where the XML file with the exported information is be written>

Export selected design time applications in the project:

ISDImportExport -action designtimeexport -p <project name> -a <application name1> -a <application name2> -output <full path name of the XML file where the exported information is to be written>

Export selected services from a design time application in the project:

ISDImportExport -action designtimeexport -s <service name1> -p <project name> -a <application name> -s <service name2> -output <full path name of the folder where the XML file with the exported information is to be written>

Export all the design time applications in the project but omit the password from the exported artifacts:

ISDImportExport -action designtimeexport -omitPassword -p <project name> -output <full path name of the folder where the XML file with the exported information is to be written>

The following examples describe how to export runtime applications:

Export multiple runtime applications:

ISDImportExport -action runtimeexport -a <application name1> -a <application name2> -a <application name3> -output <full path name of the folder where the DAT file generated for each application with the exported information is to be written>

Export a runtime application but omit the password from the exported resources:

ISDImportExport -action runtimeexport -omitPassword -a <application name> -output <full path name of the folder where the DAT file generated for each application with the exported information is to be written>