Exporting and Importing Changes


Overview

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Tivoli Change Management administration

Overview

Exporting and importing changes

In Tivoli Change Management, you can export changes from the database to a file, then import them back into the database later. Importing and exporting is useful when you are moving data from test to live systems.

When you export data, Tivoli Change Management creates a sectioned CSV (comma separated value) file. That is, the file contains sections of data, with each section defined by a header block. Each section contains a different number of comma separated values.

Information about this data is included in EXP_IMP.LOG.

The following data is imported without user ID and group IDs:

  • Task resources
  • Approvals

Note: You must use the same version of Tivoli Change Management to export and import changes successfully.


Tasks

Exporting changes

You can export change data from Tivoli Change Management. When exporting changes, you can specify search criteria. All the changes that match your search criteria are exported into the specified file. Later, you can import the changes back into the database.

To export changes:

  1. From the Utilities menu, choose Export.
    Result: The Export dialog box appears.
  2. Under Type, select Changes.
  3. Choose Select Changes.
    Result: The Find Change dialog box appears.
  4. Do one of the following:
  5. To select a set of changes, type or select criteria in any of the boxes in the Find Change dialog box.
  6. To select all changes, leave the boxes empty.
  7. Choose OK.
    Result: The Changes dialog box appears, displaying all matching changes.
  8. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Print to print the list of matching changes.
    • Choose Find to retype the selection criteria. The new list of matching changes will replace the current one.
    • Choose OK to return to the Export dialog box once you are satisfied with the list of changes. Go to step 7.
  9. In the File Name box, type the path and name of the file to use for storing the exported changes, or choose Browse to select the directory and file name.
  10. If you do not want to use the default log file, type the path and name of the file to use for logging the exported changes in the Log File Name box.
  11. Choose OK.
    Result: The changes are exported.

Importing changes

You can import change information to Tivoli Change Management.

To import change data that you previously exported from Tivoli Change Management:

  1. From the Utilities menu, choose Import.
    Result: The Import dialog box appears.
  2. Under Type, select Changes.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • In the File Name box, type the path and name of the file containing the exported changes
    • Choose Browse to select the directory and file name.
  4. If you do not want to use the default log file, type the path and name of the file to use for logging the imported changes in the Log File Name box.
  5. Choose OK.
    Result: The changes are imported.