Phantom Assemblies in ENOVIA SmarTeam
For any who create or interact with Bills of Material, you know that there are often structures in the design that should be consolidated in the BOM – phantoms (sometimes also called “ghost” assemblies). There are also sometimes components, and even entire structures, that should not be represented at all in the BOM. To help accommodate these needs, ENOVIA SmarTeam’s BOM functionality provides flexibility when it comes to displaying and rolling up items in a BOM structure. In particular, the InBOM attribute and related functionality is worth diving into for addressing these needs. Continue Reading
We are sometimes asked the questions, “Should I upgrade RepliWeb in our ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site / Multi-Vault environment?” and “If so, how should I do the upgrade?” These are reasonable questions since RepliWeb’s RDS product is currently on release 3.1.1 and the version historically provided with ENOVIA SmarTeam has been 2.6 (for the last couple of years). 
Global collaboration can be tricky for a number of reasons. For instance, when developing an application that is shared between users in two or more time zones, an important item to consider is the accuracy of time and date calculations. When making decisions based on dates and times, differences in time zones can substantially affect the integrity of data. This article describes some practices meant to limit your risk. 
When planning any software development project, whether it is a point or enterprise solution, there are several key questions to answer before a line of code is written. How will you know it’ll work on the required operating systems? How can you give the developers a standard development environment without buying or configuring hardware? Once developed, how can it be tested? Virtualization is a simple yet effective way for addressing these critical concerns related to software development environments. 
One of the often overlooked features of VMWare Workstation is the Virtual Disk Mapping utility. Available through the standard VMware Workstation GUI, the tool maps a Windows drive letter to a virtual disk used in a VM. Mapping a virtual disk can be done much quicker and easier than launching the VM to access the files on the virtual machine’s disks. This functionality ships with VMware Workstation for Windows; other tools are available for Linux users, but won’t be covered in this article. 
With every upgrade to ENOVIA SmarTeam (not to mention upgrades to CAD, Office and database platforms) there’s no question about the 
The population of 64-bit PCs has steadily increased since their mainstream introduction in 2003, and ENOVIA SmarTeam has supported the use of 64-bit machines since V5R18 SP1. However, saying that a client-server application supports 64-bit machines can mean a number of different things. Let’s take a closer look at how 64-bit Oracle is supported in an ENOVIA SmarTeam environment. 
