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Profile Manager

The Profile Manager is a CA Gen provided runtime routine that manages the Profile database. The Profile database is a push-down, pop-up runtime stack that stores the export views of procedure steps. It is used to save information between procedure step executions, to support scrolling, hidden fields, links to other procedure steps, Help/Prompt requests, and application restarts. CA Gen maintains one stack per business system per user. If you are working in three business systems, you have three stacks.

When you transfer to a procedure step, the stack is cleared and the export view of the procedure step that you are transferring to is the only entry on the stack. When you link to a procedure step, existing entries remain on the stack and the export view of the procedure step that you are linking to is placed on top of the stack.

If your application is restartable, the capabilities of the Profile Manager let you interrupt a CA Gen generated application and return to it without losing data. You can interrupt a CA Gen business system to use another CA Gen business system or to perform activities unrelated to CA Gen generated applications. If your application is not restartable, the Profile Manager only accesses the Profile Database to support scrolling, hidden fields, links to other procedure steps, and Help/Prompt requests. For more information about specifying your application as non-restartable, see the Toolset Help.