Exporting and importing CDFs through PMC

1. Ensure that a table extension exists. Alternatively, create an empty table extension for the tables that include the CDFs.

   See Table extension point.

2. Export or import the solutions that contain these table extensions through PMC.

   See Extension Deployment.

The old way of exporting and importing CDFs through ttadv4291m000 and ttadv4292m000 is still supported. CDFs that are imported with PMC are not overwritten with CDFs from ttadv4292m000.

If CDFs already exist on the system, they may be overwritten by PMC. If you then uninstall through PMC, the original CDFs are still available.

The “Customer Defined Fields” table has a new field: Origin (orig). This orig field is used to distinguish between CDFs that are manually created and CDFs that are imported through PMC. This field is displayed in the Customer Defined Fields session.

You can import a PMC solution for a table extension that did not exist before. If the same CDFs for that table already existed with origin “Manual”, they are restored if you perform an uninstall of this solution.