Prerequisites

Certain environment variable settings must be defined before the BPM can be used:

• PDMSEXE, since it contains the module to be executed in the background.

• PDMSWK, since it contains the job XML file, the Marine macro, the regenerated VIEW files and the Draft log file. It also contains the BPM log file.

• The project environment variables XXX000, XXXISO, XXXMAC and XXXPIC must be defined for each project XXX to which the BPM is applied.

A batch file BPM.bat is supplied to enable the above environment variables automatically and to start the BPM in much the same way as PDMS.bat enables to Marine environment variables.