Exporting Admin Data

[vijayaRath]

I am trying to setup a Sandbox runtime environment for DevOps . Our windchill has 1000s of Product and Libraray , Context , Folder, Template , Team , Policies  .

 As Dev/Test environment cloning is a costly affair in terms on infrastructure and Cloud maintenance , we want to setup a vanilla 12.0 server and load data through LoadFromFile . 

Is thee any mechanism we have to  get all the administrative data in XML ?  My runtime env version is same as Dev/Test 

I can use a java code and QuerySpec , however looking for a loader that can be  optimized and have all necessary dependency 

[joe_morton · Accepted solution]

Windchill 12 has some functionality in the Business Administrative Change. I had trouble using it for my use case, but maybe it might work for yours. You can make a package with multiple items. We are on 12.0 and it shows these objects as supported: 

[vijayaRath]

I couldn't find Product / Library / Folder  / template as option . 
Can you please help me with the snapshot or menu options?

[joe_morton]

I don't think those are supported in Windchill 12. 

You can find more info here: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS330275?source=search

[mmeadows-3]

Windchill Business Administrative Change (BAC) can be used to pass administrative configuration between systems.
INNEO's Genius Tools for Windchill, Administrative Bundle (Business Configuration Export/Load) does the same thing without registering and baselining systems.  There are other differences between the tools.

We have been using the INNEO solution.  It allows us to cherry pick what we want to transfer between systems.  Then it exports the XML files, we copy them to the other system, and it imports the configuration.  This saves TB of disk space and DB memory/cores.

It does not export/import entire contexts.  We use it to migrate Product and Library templates at the Org level.  Then we create the Products and Libraries that we need for testing manually.  Once the contexts exist, we use the tool to migrate the Product and Library business configuration between the systems.

[vijayaRath]

INNEO - is it open Source Tool ?

[mmeadows-3]

No, INNEO's solutions is a subscription application.

PTC's BAC is included in Windchill licensing.