Maintaining Catalogs on Multiple Stations

You can communicate catalog maintenance records between stations which are both defined as the catalog maintenance station.

Example - a development station at a customer <-> Industry Solution station. The (In. )Cat.Maint . ID field in the station record of the target station stores the highest (Ext. )Cat.Maint . ID in the station record of the source station, and not the highest catalog maintenance ID on the target station.

In such cases, IDs are generated when inputting catalog maintenance records (Ext. Key field in the Catalog Maintenance (KW) info area; composed of the source station number and serial number). This ID uniquely identifies catalog maintenance records from other catalog maintenance stations. This prevents changes to catalogs from being applied multiple times on the same station.