Data Warehouse Center Application Integration Guide

Ensuring that users can start programs from the Information Catalog Manager

You set up the objects in your information catalog so that your users can run application programs to work with the actual information that the objects describe. Users can run the application programs that they are familiar with, including the programs that were originally used to create the information.

Ensure that the following requirements are met:

• Your users need the appropriate application software installed on their workstations or on the LAN.
• Users can launch any program that can be started from the command line with the command start program_name without a path, regardless of where the program is installed.

  Many programs write their path to the program registry when they are installed. The start command retrieves the path. If a program does not write its path to the program registry, you might need to add the directory path of the program to the path environment variable on users' workstations.

• Your users need the necessary authorization to the databases or file systems where the information that they need is stored.
• The Programs objects in the information catalog must include the correct invocation syntax for the operating systems on which your users will run the programs.