CA Endevor/DB— System Overview

CA Endevor/DB provides automated facilities for performing change identification, change management, and promotion management in the CA IDMS environment. These facilities are further enhanced through supporting functionality which includes security management, software information management and the CA Endevor SCM to CA Endevor/DB Bridge. When combined, these powerful capabilities improve data dictionary operation and administration by:

Creating a permanent audit trail of all dictionary development and migration activity.
Automatically associating each change with a Change Control ID (CCID), which categorizes and reports the reason for change.
Grouping related changes for project management and reporting.
Coordinating the shared use of dictionaries between different project teams.
Automating and enforcing standard procedures.
Providing a security system that controls access to data dictionary entities.
Preventing concurrent updates to data dictionary entities.
Accurately identifying entity "pick lists" for promotion from one stage of development to another.
Validating entities prior to promotion in order to prevent "old bugs" from recurring in new system versions.
Comparing and validating vendor-supplied source against in-house changes in order to isolate and resolve conflicts.

CA Endevor/DB accommodates both small and large-scale CA IDMS installations, working in conjunction with existing standards and procedures.

Note: CA Endevor/DB may not be used with Data Sharing, and Dictionaries managedby CA Endevor/DB may not be shared.

This section contains the following topics:

CA Endevor/DB Components