The system property group file defines property groups
that are available to users when they connect to a remote system.
When a user connects to a system for the first time, Rational® Developer for System z® determines whether
a system property group file exists on the system. If so, the property
groups defined in that file are loaded from the system file and users
see them in the
Property Group Manager view.
If a
current property group is specified in the file,
that property group is associated with the
MVS Files node
in the
Remote Systems view. The property groups
are persisted in the workspace just like the property groups the user
creates. If the system property group file is updated later, users
are prompted to replace the property groups that were originally loaded
from the system with the newer property groups.
The system property
group file is propertygroups.xml and contains
the following tags. It must be encoded in UTF-8. See the related topics
for the system property group schema.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<PROPERTY-GROUPS>
<PROPERTY-GROUP>
<NAME>property group name</NAME>
<DESCRIPTIONproperty group description</DESCRIPTION>
<CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
<CATEGORY>category name</CATEGORY>
<PROPERTY>
<NAME>property name</NAME>
<VALUE>property value</VALUE>
</PROPERTY>
</CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
</PROPERTY-GROUP>
</PROPERTY-GROUPS>
- <PROPERTY-GROUPS>
- Contains one or more <PROPERTY-GROUP> tags.
- <PROPERTY-GROUP>
- Defines a property group and the property categories for the group.
This tag can contain one <NAME> tag, one <DESCRIPTION> tag,
and one or more <CATEGORY-INSTANCE> tags.
- <NAME>
- Specify the name of the property group, such as "COBOL property
group."
- <DESCRIPTION>
- A description of the property group, such as "Contains properties
for compiling COBOL programs to run in debug mode." This tag is optional.
- <CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
- Specify the property categories to be included in the property
group. This tag can contain one <NAME> tag and one or more <PROPERTY>
tags.
- <CATEGORY>
- Specify the name of a property category to include in the property
group. See the Related References for a list of valid category names.
- <PROPERTY>
- Specify one or more property <NAME> and <VALUE> pairs to
include for the category. See the Related References for a list of
valid property names.