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Access the Aggregate Set Function

Follow these steps:

1. Access Version Control. See Starting the Version Control Client.

   If you log on with a group ID, all members of the group can edit, rename or delete the aggregate set you create or change the aggregate set's administrator.

2. Select the Aggregate Sets option, Aggr Sets.
3. Name the new aggregate set. Select Actions then New.
4. Type a unique name and click OK.
5. Select the model with the objects to be selected.
   1. (Optional). Specify a filter as described in Using a Filter.
   2. From the list, select the model that contains the objects you intend to select for the set.

      For Compare Report, Trial Migration, or Migration, select the same model you will select as the source model. For Trial Adoption or Adoption, select the same model you will select as the destination model.

   3. Click OK.

   Select an aggregate object type for which you want to list aggregate object occurrences. See the tables in Become Familiar with Aggregate Object Types.

   Use the following procedure to highlight the aggregate object type of interest.

   1. You can find it helpful to select a higher-level aggregate object to the object of interest. This strategy will ensure that the report includes information on enabling objects to the object of interest. It will also ensure that the report includes information about related objects at the same level as the object of interest. For example, if the object of interest is an entity type, select instead its parent subject area. For a listing of the hierarchies, see one of the following in Become Familiar with How Aggregate Objects Expand in Preparing for Migration:

      – Subordinates of Subject Area, Entity Type, and Attribute

      – Subordinates of Database, Tablespace, Data Table, and Link Table

      – Subordinates of Business System, Procedure, Batch Job, and Procedure step

      – Subordinates of Function, Child Function, and Process

      – Subordinate of Organizational Unit

      – Subordinate of User Class

      – Subordinate of Work Attribute Set

      Select the lowest–level aggregate object possible to migrate. This strategy will reduce the number of objects that have to be migrated, as well as optimizing performance. Use the Compare Aggregate Objects Report to identify objects that have changed. Use the Trial Migration Report to determine the anticipated outcome of migrating the objects of interest. Use the expansion tables to identify component objects. If selecting a parent aggregate object, it is not necessary to select any of its component objects, since components are migrated automatically.

   2. Click List, or to limit the display to a specific range of occurrences of the selected aggregate object type, enter a filter value as described in Using a Filter and click List.
6. Select one aggregate object occurrence, select multiple occurrences, or click Select All. For use with Compare Report, Trial Migration, or Migration, selecting one occurrence and expanding it displays the list of objects subordinate to the selected occurrence. This option is useful if you want to select objects of a low-level type having an extremely large number of occurrences within the model, but only a small number when accessed in this way.
   • If you selected only one object and want to expand that object, click Expand and proceed with the Aggregate Object Expanded Occurrences dialog (step 7).
   • If you selected multiple individual occurrences, clicked Select All, or selected an object that cannot be expanded or that you do not want to expand, click Add, then click Exit. The Aggregate Object Types List appears. Either continue the selection process as described in step 5 or click Cancel and proceed to generate the report as described in step 9 for the Selected Object List.

   To identify object types that require other objects to be adopted in the same session, or previously adopted, see the guidelines under Example Where Object in Adopt Selected Depends on Another. If you are adopting all model objects in multiple sessions, list each aggregate object type in the recommended sequence, then use Select All to select all occurrences for each aggregate object type that has occurrences.

7. Select one occurrence, select multiple occurrences individually, or click Select All. Continue in one of the following ways:
   • If you selected only one object and want to expand that object, click Expand again. Continue as described at the beginning of this step. (You can repeat this step of selecting and expanding until you reach the lowest-level object in the chain.)
   • If you selected multiple objects, all objects, or a single object that either cannot be expanded or that you don't want to expand, click Add, then click Exit. If you performed only one expansion, the Aggregate Object Occurrences dialog with the parent object appears. If you performed multiple expansions, the Aggregate Object Expanded Occurrences dialog with the parent object appears. Click Exit repeatedly until you display the Aggregate Object Types dialog.

   There is no need to select a subordinate aggregate object if you have selected its parent, since it will be automatically processed when the parent object is fully expanded. This is the reason that selecting Add at the parent level is not recommended here; the assumption is that you made the selection at the highest level you need.

   Try to migrate at the lowest level possible. For example, do not migrate an entity type when only an attribute has changed; migrate only the changed attribute.

8. To continue selecting objects, return to step 5.
9. To end the selection process, click Cancel until you display the Selected Object List.
10. Verify that the listed objects are the objects to be selected. If so, select Actions, Save then Exit. (If not, see help for other options.)