Rational ProjectConsole Designer Help
This topic describes what the Designer does if you try to run the same task more than once on a given day, and provides information about how you can change the default behavior.
If you run a collection task multiple times on a given day, by default, Rational ProjectConsole stores only the data from the last collection run in the repository target tables. If, for example, ran the same task twice (once, manually) on a given day to collect data from two separate databases in the same source domain (for example, to collect artifacts from two different Rational Rose models), the data from the first run would be overwritten with data collected on the second run.
An agent running a collection task can load collected data into the warehouse, additively or nonadditively.
An agent operating in additive mode loads collected data into the warehouse without overwriting the data already stored there. Under additive mode, if you run the same collection task multiple times in a single day, data collected from each successful run is stored in the database.
If an agent is in nonadditive mode (the default behavior), it runs the same collection task multiple times in a single day, only the data collected from the last run is stored in the warehouse. The data collected from earlier runs of the task on that day are deleted.
You can specify that agents use the additive mode to run a collection task by adding an updatemode collection parameter to the parameter list for the task, and assigning the parameter a value of additive. If you do not add the updatemode parameter, a collection agent will run the task in the default update mode, which is nonadditive.
For information on how to add, and then later remove, the updatemode parameter, see Adding (and removing) the updatemode parameter.