If you want to never overwrite some specific settings during an import operation, such as the port value for the broker of a PAS for OpenEdge instance, you can use the DONT_OVERRIDE option.

This option can be specified in the configutil.properties file as shown in the following:

[Setting Name]
DONT_OVERRIDE:(PropertyHierarchy).propertyName

The format of PropertyHierarchy follows:

ParentSection/ChildSection[/ChildSection/...])

How to override a setting in the ubroker.properties file

If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile and the brkrLogFile properties in the [UBroker.AS.asbroker1] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:

[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
   DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/asbroker1).srvrLogFile
   DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/asbroker1).brokerLogFile

If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile and the brkrLogFile properties in the [UBroker.AS] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:

[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
  DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS).srvrLogFile
  DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS).brokerLogFile

If you do not want to override the srvrLogFile property in all subsections of [UBroker.AS] such as [UBroker.AS.asbroker1], [UBroker.AS.asbroker2], add the following in the configutil.properties file:

[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
   DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/*).srvrLogFile
   DONT_OVERRIDE:(UBroker/AS/*).brokerLogFile

If you have set OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME=false and you want to forcibly override the restURL property in the [REST.restmgr1] section, add the following in the configutil.properties file:

[$DLC/properties/ubroker.properties]
  FORCE_OVERRIDE: (REST/restmgr1).restUrl

For properties that do not belongs to any section, override as follows:

DONT_OVERRIDE:.propertyName
FORCE_OVERRIDE:.propertyName
Note: For more examples on registry entries and XML files, see the Importing Windows registry and Importing XML files sections.