Exporting configuration settings from a base computer

Optionally, you can export any configuration settings that you changed on your base computer and deploy those settings on computers across your enterprise.

Before you begin

Ensure you review the Prerequisites for enterprise deployment.

About this task

After installing the product on your base computer, you can configure settings and preferences, such as database connections. When you are ready to deploy the installation of the product from your base computer across your enterprise, you can additionally export the configuration settings to a file and then copy the settings to the computers that you are deploying to.

Procedure

  1. On the base computer, click File > Export.
  2. In the Export window, select Data Studio Enterprise Deployment and then Configurations.
  3. In the Export Configurations for Enterprise Deployment window, specify a directory for storing the configuration settings file.
  4. Copy the .zip file to the enterpriseDeployment folder on the shared directory where you extracted the compressed product package.

Results

The configuration settings are stored in a .zip file and are ready to be part of your enterprise deployment. When you run the installation script on a deployment computer, the installation program copies the configuration settings too.

The configuration is loaded automatically the first time the product is started. If you update the .zip file in the enterpriseDeployment folder on the shared directory, and then reinstall, the new configuration is loaded the next time the product is started.

If you do not want to load the new configuration when you start the product, you can start the product from the command line and use the -skipLoad parameter. For example, you can run this command:
C:\installation location\eclipse.exe -product com.ibm.datastudio.consolidated.product.ide –skipLoad
Where installation location is the location where the product is installed.

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