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Purpose of Internal Tracking Identifiers

External structure reference identifiers may become altered using CA IDMS SASO utility functions. Therefore, unique internal tracking identifiers were created to permanently enable identification of chapters, subjects, and topics.

Internal tracking identifiers are used in the Maintenance Option (4.0) to compare internal identifiers of structures contained in the MAINTENANCE area of a document with the identifiers of structures contained in the PRIMARY area of the same document. See Exhibit 5.2 for a description of the CA IDMS SASO data structure.

When internal identifiers existing in both areas of a document, the maintenance is labeled as R-Replace maintenance and overlays the structure contained in the PRIMARY area when applied using the online utility function.

When no match on internal identifiers can be located in both areas, the maintenance is labeled as I-Insert maintenance.

See Maintenance Option for information on creating maintenance, maintenance types, and applying maintenance.