EXPRESS Database Tools

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The EDMdatabase is Jotne EPM Technology’s proprietary storage technology. It is designed to store and process all information defined in EXPRESS and EXPRESS-X schemas (dictionary data) and Populations thereof (application data). Data are stored as Instances in a Model. A Model is stored in a Repository.

This new tool facilitates users to create EDMDB and load or delete various EDM-specific schemas and models. This is a common tool which takes care of all such operation specified above. Currently this tool restricts the database context user name to “superuser”.

Using these tools you can:

• Create an EDM database or open existing database; see Create EDM Database

• Load the EDM database; see Load Schema

• Delete EXPRESS/EXPRESS-X mappings; see Delete Schema

• Load Model

For information on various mappings and underlying features see the EDMassist website. This is the website of the EXPRESS Data Manager, which is a third-party product that supports STEP.

Notes on Command Syntax

If you do not specify any database details, then values are retrieved from the stepdex.properties file. You can either provide all values from Windchill shell or from property file: