I don't have an answer on mlcp. But as I see it, there is no pressing need to 
migrate from older tools if they do what you need. If you have any problems 
with XQSync, I still pay attention to https://github.com/marklogic/xqsync/issues

-- Mike

On 19 Nov 2013, at 07:54 , David Sewell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since forever I've used cqsh and XQSynch as my main command-line tools for 
> moving things around from filesystem to MarkLogic database or from DB to DB. 
> Since those tools are both aging and no longer in development I'm looking at 
> shifting my workflows to Content Pump.
> 
> Question: with MLCP, is there really no way to load content into a database 
> other than the target database for the XDBC server? In other words, it is 
> necessary to have one XDBC App Server for every database with which you want 
> to 
> use MLCP?
> 
> That is a somewhat bothersome limitation. With cqsh, all you need is a single 
> XDBC server on a host, because there is a "--database" flag you can use to 
> specify the database for import. Likewise, with XQSych you can select any 
> database on the host via the INPUT_CONNECTION_STRING and 
> OUTPUT_CONNECTION_STRING parameters. If this flexibility is missing from 
> MLCP, 
> is that a design decision?
> 
> Feature request: tweak the shell scripts (at least the Bash one) to allow the 
> password to be prompted for, instead of passed on the command line (for 
> security 
> reasons). (This is an easy do-it-yourself modification to mlcp.sh but it 
> seems 
> like it should be part of the distribution.)
> 
> David S.
> 
> 
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