Maintenance Object - Main

Select Admin Menu > Maintenance Object to view information about a maintenance object.

Description of Page

Most maintenance objects are provided with the base package. An implementation can introduce custom maintenance objects when needed. Most fields may not be changed if owned by the base package.

Enter a unique Maintenance Object name and Description. Owner indicates if this business object is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification).

Program Com ID is the name of the program used to call the maintenance object's page program for validating constraints when objects are archived, purged, or compared. Refer to Archiving and ConfigLab for more information.

Service Name is the name of the internal service associated with the maintenance object.

The grid displays the following for each table defined under the maintenance object:

Table

The name of a given table maintained as part of the maintenance object.

Table Role

The table's place in the maintenance object hierarchy. Only one Primary table may be specified within a maintenance object, but the maintenance object may contain many Child tables.

Parent Constraint ID

Specifies the constraint used to link the table to its parent table within the maintenance object table hierarchy.

Compare Method

Either Normal or Large Table; specifies the comparison method used by the compare utility in the ConfigLab.

Owner

Indicates if this is owned by the base package or by your implementation ( Customer Modification).

Click the View XML hyperlink to view the XML document associated with the maintenance object service in the Service XML Viewer.