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Generic Design Management (GDM) Functions

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This topic provides a list of basic editing Cadence® SKILL functions associated with Generic Design Management. GDM SKILL functions have the prefix gdm.

You can use GDM functions to:

• perform the same operations as GDM shell commands, such as gdmco or gdmci.
• get gdmSpec objects of design data.
  A gdmSpec object is a user-defined type of SKILL object. These objects can be used with any SKILL functions that need gdmSpec objects. For example, the cdsCopy SKILL functions, need library objects in the form of gdmSpec objects.

Only the functions listed here are supported for public use. All other functions, regardless of their name or prefix, and undocumented aspects of the functions described below, are private and are subject to change at any time.

• gdmAddSpecToSpecList
• gdmcancel
• gdmci
• gdmco
• gdmCreateSpec
• gdmCreateSpecFromDDID
• gdmCreateSpecList
• gdmdelete
• gdmExecute
• gdmexport
• gdmhistory
• gdmInspectSpec
• gdmIsSpecId
• gdmNextFromSpecList
• gdmObjIsCreated
• gdmRemovename
• gdmResetSpecList
• gdmsetdefver
• gdmsetname
• gdmSpecListp
• gdmSpecp
• gdmSpecType
• gdmstatus
• gdmsubmit
• gdmupdate

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