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Overview

CA Endevor/DB, the Environment for Development and Operations, is a management system that controls and monitors change processing within the CA IDMS environment. The use of CA Endevor/DB streamlines the administration of the CA IDMS environment and helps ensure a smooth migration from one stage of development (such as system testing) to the next.

CA Endevor/DB is fully integrated with CA IDMS and provides an interface between user requests against the CA IDMS Integrated Data Dictionary (IDD) and the IDD itself. CA Endevor/DB operates under z/OS and OS/390.

CA Endevor/DB:

1. Captures each update request made to the IDD (except for requests against entities for which update information is not being captured, as defined by the CA Endevor/DB Administrator).
2. Guarantees that the user making the request is authorized to do so (if access-level security is in effect).
3. Documents the change in the CA Endevor/DB Change Control Database (CCDB), automatically associating it with the user, the entity being modified, and any CA Endevor/DB management information applicable to the change.
4. Passes the update request for processing to IDD.

Because CA Endevor/DB is fully integrated with CA IDMS, it monitors itself, as well as the IDD. Any changes to the CA Endevor/DB CCDB are monitored just as carefully as those made to the IDD.