GBMS Repositories
GBMS format repositories enable to work in HOPEX (Windows Front-End) only, hence some features are not available:
• working in HOPEX (Web Front-End)
• managing repository snapshots
• using collaboration features (e.g. : review notes).
GBMS Repository Structure
The files enabling use of a repository are all in the same folder, the location of which is stored in the system repository (SystDb).
Attention: GBMS format is not supported in Web.
For more details on structure and advantages of RDBMS storage, see RDBMS Repository Installation deployment guide.A repository comprises "RepositoryName".XXX files of which type and XXX format depend on the repository server type:
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Information type
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HOPEX repository storage type: GBMS
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Semaphore
of administration
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.EMA
(protects simultaneous accesses to the EMS)
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Managing active
private workspaces
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.EMS
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Repository evolution logfile
(creation, update, etc.)
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.EMV
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Data
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.EMB
inseparable from .EMA, .EMS and .EMV files)
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For each repository, folders are created dynamically while the user is working:
• Approve: contains validated reports (MS Word) detached from HOPEX.
• Data: contains all business documents created in HOPEX.
• Document: contains all reports (MS Word) generated from HOPEX.
• RepositoryName.ix: contains the result of indexing for full-text search.
• RepositoryName.Lock (GBMS repository): contains locks created on objects during user working. These files have .EMK extension.
See "Managing locks. • RepositoryName.Log (repository backup logfile): contains repository backup logfiles (enabled by default). Each private workspace is saved in logfile, .MGL format.
See Backup logfile.• RepositoryName.Transactions (private workspace backup logfile: contains files linked to active private workspaces of repository users.
The presence of these files depends both on the server type used and on the options enabled for this repository. These files are:
• "CCC.MGL" files, where CCC is the code associated with the user (the Backup logfile option is enabled for the repository).
See Backup logfile.• "CCC.EMB" and "CCC.EMS" files (similar to those of the repository) containing data of the GBMS private workspace, where CCC is the code associated with the user.
• USER: contains a folder for each user, in which all work files generated by the user are stored. It groups the files created by backup and extraction procedures, as well as control files.
Each folder is named "CCC", where CCC is the code associated with the user.• WORK: contains work files created by administration operations carried out using the administration application.