The DRM Batch Client is one of the most useful tools that complements the flexibility and features of Oracle Data Relationship Management. It has numerous features and benefits:

• Perform activities by running a single DRM batch file
• Helps is combining multiple DRM tasks into one
• Scheduling of DRM jobs
• Set dependency on different DRM jobs
• Error capturing and logging of DRM processes
• Archiving of DRM logs and email notifications

The DRM batch file runs closely integrated with Windows batch scripting as well. So we can make it even more powerful by using parameter files that can provide a central point of configuration control instead of making changes in individual files, I will come to that later.

There are DRM activities like Delete Version, Export, Import, Create Version, Restore Version, Add Node, Delete Node, Run Action Script which can be part of a daily activity. Say the admin makes changes on the main version, and for each of the different downstream systems, we need to maintain a separate version according to the specific requirements. These activities can all be automated using the DRM Batch Client commands. Once the script is ready, it will be a bat file which can be run in Windows and hence can easily be scheduled using Windows scheduler like any other task.

This process is very robust also in the sense that the next DRM task cannot proceed in the integrated script once the previous has completed. The errors in DRM can also be logged to a file using a error control mapping file - these can be the different batch client error values returned 0 1 2 3 100 200 210 220 and 230. Thus, any error message can be interactively logged in the log file instead of only the error code. Example I can make the log file contain "Error occurred during initialization of the Batch Client" using the custom mapping file instead of error code 200, that will make it more user-friendly.

Archiving of the Batch Client logs is always preferred to keep track of the changes being made to a sensitive application such as DRM. It can be done by integrating the Windows commands to rename to the Batch Client generated logs to append them with timestamp and date, then move each of the log files to an Archive directory. This complete process of creating integrated scripts for various DRM Batch Client activities and then preserving the logs provides a very efficient way of managing the application.

Oracle DRM Batch Client Document

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