Running the population utility

This section explains how to run the population utility.

Before you begin

Before you run the population utility, you must perform the following tasks:

Note

To be available to BMC CDB Services, the data source must be defined as a System ODBC data source. User ODBC data sources are not available to the BMC CDB Services server.

To run the population utility

  1. Specify the population utility parameters in an XML file by using the guidelines in Format-of-the-XML-parameters-file and Population-utility-parameters.
  2. Create a CSV input file, as described in CSV-input-file-format-and-structure.

  3. Issue the CDBBDEPopulate.exe command, including the name of the XML parameters file as an argument.

    Example

    c:/Program Files/BMC Software/CDBStudio/CDBBDEPopulate.exe <XML parameters filename>

    Your path to the CDBBDEPopulate.exe file might be different, depending on where you installed BMC CDB Services.

 

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