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Exporting Globals

Exporting Globals

Caution:

Because of how easy it is to import globals (which is an irreversible change), it is good practice to export only the globals you need to import. Note that if you export all globals, the export includes all the globals that contain code. Be sure that you know which globals InterSystems IRIS uses and which globals your application uses; see General Advice.

The Export Globals page enables you to export globals.

To access and use this page:

  1. Display the Globals page.

  2. Specify the globals to work with. To do so, see steps 2 and 3 in Introduction to the Globals Page.

  3. Click the Export button.

  4. Specify the file into which you wish to export the globals. To do this, either enter a file name (including its absolute or relative pathname) in the Enter the path and name of the export on server <hostname> field or click Browse and navigate to the file.

  5. Select the export file’s character set with the Character set list.

  6. In the page’s central box:

    • Choose an Output format

    • Choose a Record format

  7. Select or clear Check here to run export in the background...

  8. Click Export.

  9. If the file already exists, click OK to overwrite it with a new version.

The export creates a .gof file.

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