Introduction › The CA Endevor InfoMan Interface Package Level

The CA Endevor InfoMan Interface Package Level

The package level of the interface allows the capture of both package life cycle information and information about the individual actions in the package. The interface establishes the following relationships:

• The CA Endevor SCM package is cross-referenced to an InfoMan change record, with the package ID stored in the COREQUISITE field of the InfoMan record, and the InfoMan RNID stored in the CORRELATION field of the CA Endevor SCM package record.
• For each unique CCID in the package action SCL records, the interface maintains a change activity record in InfoMan, with the CA Endevor SCM CCID stored in the ACTION NAME field in the InfoMan record. Information about each action associated with the CCID can be stored as freeform text in that activity record. The freeform text field is useful for this purpose because new information is always appended to existing information in the field.

The diagram below summarizes the package level of the interface.

As previously illustrated, the package level of the InfoMan Interface allows sites that use InfoMan as the mechanism for approving packages for production turnover to use the InfoMan approval process instead of the approval process for CA Endevor SCM packages.

The interface also provides an improved audit trail for packages, and better reporting on packages than is currently available from CA Endevor SCM.

Information Available from the Package Level of the Interface

Note: You can view package information stored in InfoMan using reports. For more information, see Using CA Endevor InfoMan Interface Reports. In addition, in foreground you can view package correlation data from the Package Display panel.