Tutorial: Sharing a BOM between Java and COBOL applications

This tutorial shows you how to use Rule Designer to configure a Java™ BOM for COBOL structures so that you can deploy your ruleset to zRule Execution Server for z/OS and execute it from a COBOL application.

What you will learn

In this tutorial, you develop the following skills:

  • Importing a Java-based rule project into your workspace
  • Enabling the business object model (BOM) for COBOL copybook generation
  • Generating a COBOL copybook from the BOM
  • Customizing the default Java to COBOL mapping
  • Deploying your rules for rule execution in a COBOL application on z/OS®.

Time required

This tutorial should take approximately 30 minutes to finish.