Exporting an application

During development, IBM® InfoSphere® Information Services Director provides the ability to export and import projects, applications, and specific services.

About this task

You can also export the services defined in an application before it is deployed and import the services into another application. When you are exporting your InfoSphere Information Services Director project or applications you have the choice of merely exporting only the design-time information, which creates an XML file, or you can export the application runtime information, which creates a DAT file.

Procedure

To export design-time information:
1. In the Information Services Application workspace, select the application.
2. In the Tasks pane, click Export.
To export runtime information:
1. From the IBM InfoSphere Information Server console, select Operate > Deployed Information Service Applications.
2. Click on an application, and then click Export. The runtime information includes all the metadata required by the application server, the metadata repository, and the executable parts of the application.