Component Management

Component management tasks supported by Serena XML fall into the following categories:

• Component Lifecycle Tasks — Development tasks that comprise or enable a significant step in the component lifecycle. Typical commands are checkout, checkin, browse, compare, build, recompile, relink, lock, unlock, scratch, and rename.

• Count copybook names used by source (baseline I/A or package records) — CMPONENT SRC_INCL COUNT — Control and information retrieval tasks for multiple component versions maintained concurrently in the staging/development library. Such commands include list and retrieve.

• Component Information Management Tasks — Tasks that retrieve or manage descriptive metadata or control information about a component, such as component descriptions or staging version change descriptions. Typical commands include list.

• Component Security Tasks — Tasks that validate or manage component access security. Typical commands are check and list.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Component Management Message Syntax

• Component Lifecycle Tasks

• Component Staging Version Management

• Component Information Management Tasks

• Component Security Tasks