You must supply a predicate for each object type you define in the type property. If you fail to supply a predicate for a specified type, then no objects of that type are dumped.

To dump all instances of the type, specify a predicate that is true for all instances of the type, such as 1=1.

To dump a subset of the instances of the object type, define a WHERE clause qualification in the predicate properties. The qualification is imposed on the object type specified at the corresponding index level in the type property. That is, the qualification defined in predicate[0] is imposed on the type defined in type[0], the qualification defined in predicate[1] is imposed on the type defined in type[1], and so forth.

For example, if the value of type[1] is dm_document and the value of predicate[1] is object_name = ’foo’, then only documents or document subtypes that have an object name of foo are dumped. The qualification can be any valid WHERE clause qualification. The Content Server DQL Reference Manual contains the description of a valid WHERE clause qualification.

The predicate property accepts a maximum of 255 characters. If the qualification exceeds 255 characters, place the remaining characters in the predicate2 property at the corresponding index level. For example, if the qualification defined for type[0] is 300 characters, you put the first 255 characters in predicate[0] and the remaining 45 in predicate2[0]. When the dump is executed, Content Server concatenates predicate[0] and predicate2[0]. The predicate2 property accepts a maximum of 255 characters also.

Important: If you use the predicate2 property at any index position, you must also set the predicate2 property at all index positions before the desired position. Content Server does not allow you to skip index positions when setting repeating properties. For example, if you set predicate2[2] and predicate2[4], you must also set predicate2[0], predicate2[1], and predicate2[3]. It is valid to set the values for these intervening index positions to a single blank.