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Generating the Data Files in XML Format

If you run the unload job from the Fast Clone Console, you can optionally generate the data files in XML format based on the regular ASCII data files. You can then use the XML files with third-party software.

Open the FastClone_installation/uiconf/default.cfg file in a text editor and set the

generate_xml_metadata

parameter to true.

This parameter indicates whether Fast Clone creates metadata files in the _xml subdirectory of the output directory when you run a data unload job.

Restart the Fast Clone Console for this setting to take effect.

Open the configuration file for which to run the data unload job and save it again in the Fast Clone Console.

Run the data unload job.

Fast Clone generates the table_name.columns file for each unloaded table in the _xml subdirectory of the output directory. These files include table metadata for generating XML data files.

Generate the XML data files based on the generated metadata files and the regular data files in one of the following ways:

From the command prompt on Windows, run the xmlconvert.cmd script. From the command line on Linux or UNIX, run the xmlconvert.sh script.

From the Fast Clone Console, click

Data

Convert to XML

on the menu bar, or click the

Convert CSV output into XML format

button on the toolbar.

Fast Clone generates the XML data files in the _xml subdirectory for each unloaded table.

If the operation ends with an error, view the informaticaFastClone_mngr.log file that Fast Clone generates in the installation directory to diagnose the problem. The following table describes return codes for the script that generates the XML data files:

Error Code	Description
0	Fast Clone successfully generated the XML data files.
1	Fast Clone encountered an internal error when generating the XML data files.
2	Fast Clone did not find the output directory.
3	Fast Clone did not find the output data files for which to generate XML data files.
4	Fast Clone did not find the _xml subdirectory in the output directory.
5	Fast Clone could not create an XML file.
6	Fast Clone did not find the metadata files in the _xml subdirectory.
7	Fast Clone could not open the configuration file.

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