ARSXML Export under 8.4

[Greg Ira]

Has anyone successfully exported all their applications using ARSXML and the _ALL  export with V8.4?  We're trying to export an 8.4 database and ran into a JAVA exception issue when using applicationGroup name="_ALL" using the -a option.  We got the application groups before it died so I'm trying to retrieve just the applications.  Using the name=" _All" option for applications isn't working because it's looking for something in the appGroup= field.  Under V9.5 appGroup="_ALL" works but fails in V8.4 (App Group '_ALL' doesn't exist).  I'm curious if anyone has got around this?

[Alessandro Perucchi]

Hello Greg,

arsxml, CMOD 8.4 and export... that's a long and hateful love story!! :-)

until CMOD 8.5 ARSXML was written in Java, and it had lots of bugs, memory problems, etc... etc... and it was slow as a snail... and I'm not nice with snails, because they are very nice creatures!!

All I can say and advice you with arsxml and CMOD 8.4, is to extract piece by piece, folder by folder, application group by application group.
Do as many XML you need in order to do that.
With that you will have the minimum of problem.

Hope that helps a little bit :-)

Good luck!

Alessandro

[Greg Ira]

Thanks Alessandro,
Doing it piece by piece was my plan B.  I'll probably go with that rather than waste my time with getting the _all thing to work.
Thanks!