Introduction › The CA Endevor InfoMan Interface Batch Utility

The CA Endevor InfoMan Interface Batch Utility

You use the batch utility (program C1BMEI00) to build an assembled rule set to drive the package and action levels of the interface. The utility provides a language that allows you to define this rule set by:

• Identifying InfoMan actions to be performed (Inquiry, Retrieve, Create, Update), and the PIDT table needed for each function.
• Specifying the exit points where the actions are to be performed.
• Establishing criteria on the CA Endevor SCM or the InfoMan side for performing an action.
• Specifying the CA Endevor SCM information to be recorded in InfoMan, and the InfoMan fields where the information is to be recorded.

The diagram below illustrates this process.

As previously illustrated, the utility assembles the definition syntax into a load module, referred to in this manual as the E/INFO table. The E/INFO table is loaded at CA Endevor SCM initialization, and is independent of InfoMan invocation. The rule set it contains determines how the interface uses the InfoMan API.

When the table is invoked, CA Endevor SCM builds a request for the InfoMan API using the information in the table. The InfoMan API executes the requested functions against the InfoMan database.