Populating business data

The BMC CDB Business Data Population Utility is a command-line utility that extracts, reads, and translates the business data in a CSV file.

The population utility sends the translated data to the Population Services component, which stores it in the BMC CDB database.

You specify parameters for the population utility in an XML file. The name of the XML file is passed to the population utility as its only argument.

Note

The structure of the CSV file that contains your business data must correspond to a business data extension that you defined. For more information, see Creating-and-managing-business-data-extensions.

The following topics explain how to use the BMC CDB Business Data Population Utility to populate the BMC CDB database with business data:

 

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