Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Extract/Load/Delete request file

File-AID/RDX uses the extract/load/delete request file to select the data to be extracted using Option 2, Extract, loaded using Option 3, Load, or deleted using Option 4, Delete. This file contains both relationship criteria and selection criteria as well as load target information. The request file can contain data for an extract only, load only, extract with continue to load, or delete only request.

The request file has the following characteristics:

File organization

Either partitioned or sequential (DSORG=PO or DSORG=PS)

Record format

Variable-blocked (RECFM=VB)

Logical record length

1004

Important

Pre-Release 4.3 extract/load request files have fixed or fixed-blocked (RECFM=F or RECFM=FB) record format. When saving a Pre-Release 4.3 request file, File-AID/RDX will issue an invalid format message. Specify a new name to save the request file in variable-blocked (RECFM=VB) format (see also Save Extract Request).

For more information about how File-AID/RDX uses this file and how it is structured, see File-AID/RDX Extract/Load/Delete Request File.

Data Visualizer

The Data Visualizer component of the BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench provides another way to view the relationship definitions in an extract request file. Refer to the BMC Compuware Topaz Workbench documentation for more information on the Data Visualizer.

Related topics

Extract-function

Load-function

Delete-function


 

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