iea Command—Start the Export Assistant

Permission required: Access to the directory where the utility is located.

The iea command invokes the Export Assistant, a graphical user interface that allows you to export data into a file format that is accepted by external products.

The iea command has the following formats:

iea [-loop] [filename.ii_exp]

iea {filename.ii_exp|-l listfile} –silent –logfilename=logfile.txt [-o]

• -loop

  Prompts whether you want to perform another export operation after an export is complete.

• filename.ii_exp

  Invokes the Export Assistant with the parameters that are stored in the specified export file. The extension of the export file should be .ii_exp.

• -l listfile

  In silent mode, performs export operations on multiple export files listed in listfile.

• –silent –logfilename=logfile

  Runs Export Assistant in "silent mode" (no prompts appear), and reports errors or output in the specified logfile. The –silent option is available only if a filename.ii_exp or –l argument is used. If a problem occurs, errors are reported in the specified log file and the program terminates with no prompts.

• -o

  In silent mode, overwrites the log file to be created, if it already exists.

iea Example

This example exports data in multiple files.

In the example, the filelist.txt file contains the following two lines:

c:\temp\exportemployees.ii_exp
c:\temp\exportsales.ii_exp

The following command invokes the Export Assistant in silent mode. The Export Assistant then performs two exports that correspond to the parameters in the c:\temp\exportemployees.ii_export and c:\temp\exportsales.ii_export files. Any errors are reported in the c:\temp\erriea.txt file. The files to be created will be overwritten if they already exist.

iea -l filelist.txt -silent -logfilename=c:\temp\erriea.txt -o