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The Iterative BPI Process

We recommend that you execute the BPI process in iterations. For the first iteration, you might implement one System (or application). This lets you become familiar with how to edit the input tables and how the jobs work. After the first iteration, you could execute the BPI to implement an entire application (an application can consist of multiple Systems and Subsystems). Then you could do additional iterations for each additional application. For the first iteration, you perform all the steps. For subsequent iterations, you re-edit the BPI input tables and then rerun the jobs beginning with job #5ALLOC.

For the first iteration, do the following:

1. Submit BPISTART.
2. Complete all the BPI input tables.
3. Edit the #JOBCARD.
4. Edit #OPTION to enable symbolic substitution.
5. Execute the BPI jobs #0SETUP through #9DEFGRP, and submit the additional jobs that get created.

For the second and subsequent iterations, do the following:

1. Edit the values in the tables.
2. Execute BPI jobs #5ALLOC through #9DEFGRP, and submit the additional jobs that get created.
3. Repeat these steps as many times as needed to add all the Systems you want to put under the control of CA Endevor SCM at this time.