Rational Developer for System z

About the New Service Flow Project wizard

The New Service Flow Project wizard creates a new service flow project and, optionally, allows you to create and initialize a service interface and a flow for the new service flow project.
Thus the wizard allows you to create and initialize the three main structural artifacts required by a service flow project:
Table 1 summarizes the wizard's features. The next help topic (Using the New Service Flow Project wizard) describes each page of the wizard in detail.
Note: The help links in the third column of Table 1 are repeated in the next few topics.
Note: Pages 4A, 4B, and 4C are mutually exclusive. Which one appears depends on your choice on page 3.
Table 1. Features of the wizard
Artifact created by the wizard: Options: Page of the wizard:
A service flow project containing the following empty subprojects:
  • Interface definition subproject
  • Terminal applications subproject
  • Nonterminal applications subproject
  • Outbound Web services subproject
  • This part is always created.
  • You can specify custom names for the subprojects.
A service interface for the service flow project.
  • You decide whether to create this part.
  • You can create a basic service interface or import an interface definition from a WSDL file (.wsdl), a COBOL file (.cbl, .cob, .cpy, .ccp), or a PL/I file (.pli, .inc, .mac).
A flow containing a sequence of operations to be performed.
  • You decide whether to create this part.
  • You can create:
    • An empty flow.
    • A flow containing empty nodes to be filled in later.
    • A flow containing Invoke nonterminal nodes.
    • A flow containing Invoke screen operation nodes.
A flow containing a series of Invoke nonterminal nodes, each node invoking a particular nonterminal application.
  • You specify the nonterminal applications.
  • For each nonterminal application, you specify the name of the interface operation file and the COBOL structures or PL/I structures for the input and output messages.
  • A host connection file, opened in the host editor.
  • The opportunity to record a flow.
  • You define the host connection properties.
  • You record the flow.
A flow containing a sequence of Invoke nodes, each of which you can later associate with an operation or a flow.
  • You specify the number and order of Invoke nodes.
  • You can select to have the wizard connect the Invoke nodes in the flow or not.
Your selections are stored and are later retrieved when you run the New Generation Properties wizard.
  • Compiler information
  • Storage layout
  • Compile options

To create an additional nonterminal applications subproject or terminal applications subproject for an existing service flow project, see Adding a subproject to an existing service flow project.


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