You can import accelerators and PFV's as a background job or in the foreground. The background job runs on the Data Archive server instead of on the EDM client machine. You may want to run the job on the Data Archive server to improve the job performance and to reduce the amount of resources consumed on the EDM client machine. To import accelerators or PFV's as a background job, you must start EDM from Data Archive. Standalone EDM does not support offline import.

When you import accelerators or PFV's, you specify the job execution mode, the location of the xml metadata files, and the job parameters.