Applications

You typically define an application for each different type of report or source of data that you plan to store in IBM® Content Manager OnDemand.

When you define an application, you assign the application to an application group and specify the physical and logical characteristics of the report. The physical characteristics of a report include the code page, the type of data found in the input file, and information about carriage control characters. The logical characteristics of a report include the different ways that you want to present the information contained in the report to your users.

The Content Manager OnDemand data indexing, loading, and viewing programs use the information that you provide to process the report. For example, you can specify the parameters that the Content Manager OnDemand indexing program uses to locate and extract index data from the report. You can create logical views for the application. Logical views represent different ways to display pages of the report. You can set up printing options, such as defining a default printer for users and printing options for AFP and line data documents.

Content Manager OnDemand organizes information about an application into tabs: General, View Information, Indexer Information, Load Information, Logical View Fields, Logical Views, and Print Options. Each tab contains options, fields for you to enter information about the application, and command buttons.