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Manage Staged Transactions

CA CMDB provides a facility where you can store data before you load it into the CA CMDB. This "staged" data is stored as transactions in the transaction work area (TWA). A staged transaction is a unit of work that creates or updates a CI or Relationship. The TWA can contain many transactions for a given CI or relationship.

You can capture data being loaded into the CMDB before that data is committed so that you can modify:

• Nonstandard data can be cleaned up and standardized.
• Incomplete data can be supplemented. For example, CI names starting with "NY" can have their location set to "New York".
• Data that does not match existing lookup tables (SRELs) can be modified.
• Transactions can be scheduled for implementation at a future time.
• Reconcile transactions to existing CIs in the CA CMDB before you load the data.
• Validate the CI and relationship transactions to prevent the creation of invalid data or new CIs when a single or existing CIs should be updated. View each transaction and the potential CIs that it can update so that you can reconcile the transaction manually to the target CI.

You can use the TWA to help you proactively manage the reconciliation process. You can configure GRLoader to load the data into the TWA, where CA CMDB lets you modify the transaction data to handle transactions that can create potentially update or reference the wrong CI.

For more information, see Review and Modify Inbound Data Using Transaction Work Area (TWA).