Generation of Enterprise Service Tools artifacts to remote systems

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This topic describes the ability to generate Enterprise Service Tools artifacts to remote systems (currently MVS, or z/OS® UNIX) using Enterprise Service Tools project.

Note: This is only applicable to single service Enterprise Service Tools projects.

The ability to generate Enterprise Service Tools artifacts to remote systems (currently MVS, or z/OS UNIX) using Enterprise Service Tools project is supported by selecting a remote location.

Selecting a Remote Location

Selection of the remote system is provided by performing the following:
  1. Choosing the Remote location button. When Remote location is specified the Browse... button is enabled.
  2. Selection of the Browse... opens a remote browse dialog where the user can select a remote file container.

Table 1 describes the valid remote destinations for various Enterprise Service Tools artifact and also supplies the validation rules.
Table 1. Valid Remote Destination Rules
Enterprise Service Tools Artifact Target
System PDS in MVS Sub-Projects System Directory in z/OS UNIX
COBOL or PL/I Does not allow an invalid member name. Checks if the user has write access.
PDS selected must have record type of F or FB Does not allow an invalid File name.

Acceptable characters are: A-Z a-z 0-9 . / _
XSD/WSDL Not applicable Checks if the user has write access.
Does not allow an invalid File name.

Acceptable characters are: A-Z a-z 0-9 . / _
WSBind Not applicable Checks if the user has write access.
Does not allow an invalid File name.

Acceptable characters are: A-Z a-z 0-9 . / _
XML Correlator Does not allow an invalid member name. Checks if the user has write access.
PDS selected must have record type of VB or VBA Does not allow an invalid File name.

Acceptable characters are: A-Z a-z 0-9 . / _

Selecting the remote files in the generated project

To open the remote file in the default editor (i.e., LPEX for COBOL/PLI, WSBind Viewer for wsbind file, etc), double-click the remote file. During opening of the remote file, if the associated system is not connected, the user is prompted with username/password dialog.

When the remote file is selected, the file location information for the file is displayed in the properties view.

Limitations

The following are the limitations of this capability:
  1. The generation properties files cannot be used in batch mode.
  2. Generating to z/OS UNIX sub-projects is not supported.