Message Sets: Creating a message definition file

Creating an empty message definition file to contain your message model objects.

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You must create a message definition file before you can create the message model objects. The message definition file contains the logical and physical model definitions of the objects in XML Schema form.

You can create the message definition file in one of the following ways:

Create the message definition file from scratch, see Message Sets: Creating a message definition file from scratch.
Base your message definition file on an existing resource (for example, an XML Schema file, an IBM® supplied message, an XML DTD file, a C header file, a COBOL file, or a WSDL file), see Message Sets: Creating a message definition file from an existing resource.
Copy a message definition file from one message set to another.
If you do copy a message definition file from one message set to another, you must check that the source and target message sets have identical physical formats, and that namespaces are enabled.

If the source and target namespaces do not have identical formats, the physical format of the message definition file might be replaced by the default information applied to the target message set.