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About Extract rules
Create an Extract rule to define the data to extract from your application using the Business Intelligence Exchange (BIX) facility.
The Extract rule type is available when your ruleset includes the Pega-BIX ruleset. For more information on BIX, see PDN article About the Business Intelligence Exchange product.
Category
An Extract rule is an instance of the Rule-Admin-Extract class. Extract rules belong to the SysAdmin category.
Extracting data from BIX
To extract data from within Pega 7 Platform:
- Create a new Extract rule on the New tab.
- Specify the properties to be extracted on the Definition tab.
- Establish any filters for the data on the Filter Criteria tab.
- Specify the destination for the Extract rule on the File Specification tab.
- Run the Extract rule. For details on this step, see Running the command-line extract process, Running an Extract rule manually in Designer Studio, and Extract rules using a Pega 7 Platform agent.
- Run the Extract rule. For details on this step, see Running an Extract rule manually in Designer Studio, and Extract rules using a Pega 7 Platform agent.
The output data includes a timestamp and a batch identifier. These help when you want to compare information from different extracts or isolate information from a specific extract.
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