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CA Endevor InfoMan Interface

The CA Endevor InfoMan Interface offers a flexible mechanism for implementing InfoMan policies as they relate to CA Endevor SCM, for controlling CA Endevor SCM actions based on InfoMan information, and for logging CA Endevor SCM information in InfoMan.

The interface works with both native InfoMan and the InfoMan Interactive Facility (IIF).

In addition to managing the initialization and termination of InfoMan sessions under CA Endevor SCM, the interface implements package-level and action-level interaction between CA Endevor SCM and InfoMan. This allows you to:

• Use the InfoMan approval process for moving packages into production, rather than the CA Endevor SCM process.
• Use the InfoMan record as an auditing tool.
• Display package information from InfoMan during a CA Endevor SCM session.
• Produce lists of available CCIDs when requesting stand-alone actions in foreground or batch SCL generation.

The interface does this by communicating directly from CA Endevor SCM exit points with the InfoMan API. The communication is accomplished through a user-defined rule set, called the E/INFO table, created when the interface is implemented. You create the rule set with a batch utility provided with the interface.

Before the existence of the InfoMan API, Terminal Simulation Programs (TSPs) were the only way to get to InfoMan. The batch utility offers another, flexible way to build a custom rule set for implementing InfoMan policies in CA Endevor SCM, and getting data requirements and processing logic from CA Endevor SCM to InfoMan.

The batch utility allows this rule set to be independent of InfoMan invocation. Moreover, the utility does not require extensive experience with either TSPs or assembler programming.