User guide

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Chapter 2
Starting a Project
This chapter tells you how to:
• Set up your UNIX account and environment
• Create a project
• Manage a project’s majordomo email list
Procedures explained in this chapter:
To create a new project:
on page 2-3
To add yourself to a majordomo list:
on page 2-4
Obtaining Appropriate Accounts
The BOM and PCN process is essentially a set of UNIX-based scripts, utilities,
data files, and directories. Therefore, if you don’t need to run Viewlogic, Allegro,
or other GUI, X Window System applications, you can access these utilities and
data by:
• Accessing the UNIX system(s) that support them, by mounting parts of those
file systems or, if necessary, using
rlogin
or
telnet
• Accessing the data via
ftp
or
telnet
When this process interacts with SAP, you can access SAP via a UNIX
command-line interface or Microsoft Windows NT/95 applications.
UNIX Accounts
If you run such BOM processing utilities as
bn_bomprocess
or
bom_upload
,
perhaps via
docmgr
or
bnw_docmgr
, you need:
• An engineering UNIX account—call the help desk if you do not have one