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Inheritance Resolution Changes in CA Plex r5.5

At r5.0 of CA Plex, the inheritance engine was changed to address limitations and bugs in inheritance behavior. Additional changes were also made to support the new Dependency Browser in r5.0. For some customers, these changes caused significant problems when the time came to upgrade to the new release. CA Plex r5.1 included some fixes for these problems, but some significant problems remained.

CA Plex r5.5 resolves the known bugs in the inheritance engine. No changes were made to the inheritance engine between r5.5 and r5.5 SP1. There are differences in inheritance engine behavior compared to earlier releases that will impact some customers. In the following sections three different cases are described.