Tip 4 – Using Lifecycle Management
Want to save a file back up of FDMEE for disaster recovery purposes? Need to synchronize your FDMEE apps across environments? FDMEE makes this easy with Lifecycle Management.
Lifecycle Management – commonly referred to as “LCM” – provides a mechanism for migrating application content across environments and even operating systems. You can access Lifecycle Management via Shared Services.
- In Shared Services, navigate to your FDMEE application.
- Select your FDMEE application to display a list of migration artifacts.
- Choose your artifacts and click the Export button to name and generate your LCM package.
- When the export is complete, your LCM package (a collection of XML files) will appear in the File System group in Shared Services.
- From there, you can download the LCM zip file to a network share.
Hi,
One thing I’ve noticed is that the LCM actually is doing a merge when you import across environment. I don’t want that to happen, as it leaves old mappings in our Test system, which should get replaced with the new ones from the Production system.
Do you know a way around this? Meaning do an LCM import wiping out existing mappings?
Good question. Currently, there isn’t a replace mode for importing data load mappings via LCM.
Suggestion # 1 – In FDMEE, you can delete all of the data load mappings for a particular dimension before using LCM to refresh the dimension.
Suggestion # 2 – You can use the importmapping Windows batch/ UNIX shell script to import data load mappings from a flat file. The importmapping script has a replace mode.