Populating properties by submitting a request to an active instance

You can use the prpcServiceUtils tool to extract a property value from the Storage Stream or pzPvStream (BLOB) column into a newly added table column, using a web service to connect to an active instance of Pega Platform. This tool can also rebuild Index- instances that are defined by Declare Index rules.

To populate a newly exposed property, follow these steps:

Configure the common properties in the prpcServiceUtils.properties file.

Property name	Value
`pega.rest.server.url`	The URL for the REST service, specified in the following format: `http://` `<hostname>` `:` `<port>` `/` `<context>` `/PRRestService/` For example: `http://myhost:8080/prweb/PRRestService`
`pega.rest.username`	The operator name on the target system with access to REST services.
`pega.rest.password`	The password of the specified operator.
`pega.rest.proxy.host`	Optional: The host name of the REST proxy server. Do not use localhost as the host name.
`pega.rest.proxy.port`	Optional: The port for the REST proxy server.
`pega.rest.proxy.username`	Optional: The operator name on the REST proxy server with import and export access.
`pega.rest.proxy.password`	Optional: The password of the REST proxy operator.
`pega.rest.proxy.domain`	Optional: The domain of the REST proxy server.
`pega.rest.proxy.workstation`	Optional: The workstation ID for the REST proxy server.
`pega.rest.response.type`	The REST response type, either `xml` or `json`. The default value is `json`. Rollback, restore point, and update access group operations support only `json`.
`user.temp.dir`	Optional: Enter the full path to the temporary directory. Leave this blank to use the default temporary directory. For more information about temporary directories, see Temporary files and temporary files directories .

Configure the classes.

To specify the data for populating the new column, use the include and exclude classes properties. For example, if you include Rule- with descendants and exclude Rule-File- with descendants, Pega Platform processes all descendant classes of Rule-, except rules in Rule-File-. Classes to include (required)

Property name	Value
`expose.includedClasses`	Comma-separated list of classes to include in the column. To specify a range of keys from pzInsKey, specify one class with no descendants.
`expose.includeDescendents`	Optional: Set to `false` to exclude descendants of included classes. The default value, `true`, includes them.

Classes to exclude

Property name	Value
`expose.excludedClasses`	Comma-separated list of classes to exclude from the column.
`expose.excludeDescendents`	Optional: Set to `true` to exclude descendants of excluded classes. Setting the value to `false` does not exclude descendants.

Configure the access group.

Property name	Value
`expose.accessGroup`	The access group for the Rule-Declare-Index of the classes being exposed.

Configure the keys or date ranges to expose.

Specify the range of pzInsKey or pxCreateDateTime values to expose. If you specify both, the pzInsKey values override the pxCreateDateTime values.

Property name	Value
`expose.startKey`	The minimum value for pzInsKey. The tool exports data equal to or greater than this value.
`expose.endKey`	The maximum value for pzInsKey. The tool exports data equal to or less than this value.
`expose.startDate`	The minimum value for pxCreateDateTime. The tool exports data equal to or greater than this value.
`expose.endDate`	The maximum value for pxCreateDateTime. The tool exports data equal to or less than this value.

Configure the reindexing behavior.

Property name	Value
`expose.reindex`	Specifies whether to regenerate the database. The default is `true`. To expose property references, set `expose.reindex=true`. To regenerate indexes, enter the REST user name and password (prpc.rest.username and prpc.rest.password in the common properties section).
`expose.reindexType`	Specify which rulesets to reindex: `nonpega`: (Default) Process only customer rulesets `full` : Process Pega Platform and customer rulesets `pega` : Process only Pega Platform rulesets To maximize performance, process Pega Platform rulesets only when instructed to do so by Global Customer Support.
`expose.commitRate`	The number of data instances processed with each database commit to balance memory usage and performance. The default of 100 is sufficient for most environments.
`expose.async`	Specifies whether to run the expose operation in asynchronous mode and queue the request. Default is `true`.

To regenerate indexes, enter the REST user name and password (prpc.rest.username and prpc.rest.password in the common properties section).

Save and close the prpcServiceUtils.properties file.

To populate the properties, run the prpcServiceUtils.bat or prpcServiceUtils.sh script with the expose option, for example: prpcServiceUtils.bat expose

Optional: Pass one or more arguments.

prpcServiceUtils script argument	Value
`artifactsDir`	The full path to the output file location, for those functions that generate output. The default is the /scripts/utils/logs directory.
`connPropFile`	The full path to the serviceConnection.properties file that includes information for multiple targets.
`poolSize`	The thread pool size. The default is 5.
`requestTimeOut`	The number of seconds the system waits for a response before failing with a time-out error. The default is 300 seconds.
`jobIdFile`	The path to the job IDs file that is generated by the asynchronous operation.
`propFile`	The property file name, to override the default prpcServiceUtils.properties file.
`operationName`	Specify the operation that generated the job ID for getStatus: `import`, `export`, `expose`, `hotfix`, or `rollback`.

Note: For asynchronous operations, the system response includes the job ID, which you can use to query the job status.