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What is a Sandbox in Ab Initio?
ITtoolbox as adapted from Abinitio-L discussion group Summary: What is a sandbox? Full Article: Disclaimer: Contents are not reviewed for correctness and are not endorsed or recommended by ITtoolbox or any vendor. Popular Q&A contents include summarized information from ITtoolbox Abinitio-L discussion unless otherwise noted.
3/3/2004 By ITtoolbox Popular Q&A Team for
Adapted from a response by Arif on Monday, February 23, 2004 Sandbox is a directory structure of which each directory level is assigned a variable name, is used to manage check-in and checkout of repository based objects such as graphs. fin -------> top level directory ( $AI_PROJECT ) | |---- dml -------> second level directory ( $AI_DML ) | |----- xfr -------> second level directory ( $AI_XfR ) | |----- run --------> second level directory ( $AI_RUN ) | You'll require a sandbox when you use EME (repository s/w) to maintain release control. Within EME for the same project an identical structure will exist. The above-mentioned structure will exist under the os (eg unix), for instance for the project called fin, and is usually name of the top-level directory. In EME, a similar structure will exist for the project: fin. When you checkout or check-in a whole project or an object belonging to a project, the information is exchanged between these two structures. For instance, if you checkout a dml called fin.dml for the project called fin, you need a sandbox with the same structure as the EME project called fin. Once you've created that, as shown above, fin.dml or a copy of it will come out from EME and be placed in the dml directory of your sandbox.
ITtoolbox as adapted from Abinitio-L discussion group Summary: What is a sandbox? Full Article: Disclaimer: Contents are not reviewed for correctness and are not endorsed or recommended by ITtoolbox or any vendor. Popular Q&A contents include summarized information from ITtoolbox Abinitio-L discussion unless otherwise noted.
3/3/2004 By ITtoolbox Popular Q&A Team for
Adapted from a response by Arif on Monday, February 23, 2004 Sandbox is a directory structure of which each directory level is assigned a variable name, is used to manage check-in and checkout of repository based objects such as graphs. fin -------> top level directory ( $AI_PROJECT ) | |---- dml -------> second level directory ( $AI_DML ) | |----- xfr -------> second level directory ( $AI_XfR ) | |----- run --------> second level directory ( $AI_RUN ) | You'll require a sandbox when you use EME (repository s/w) to maintain release control. Within EME for the same project an identical structure will exist. The above-mentioned structure will exist under the os (eg unix), for instance for the project called fin, and is usually name of the top-level directory. In EME, a similar structure will exist for the project: fin. When you checkout or check-in a whole project or an object belonging to a project, the information is exchanged between these two structures. For instance, if you checkout a dml called fin.dml for the project called fin, you need a sandbox with the same structure as the EME project called fin. Once you've created that, as shown above, fin.dml or a copy of it will come out from EME and be placed in the dml directory of your sandbox.
