Rational Developer for System z

Creating a property group

Creating property groups and associating them with resources enables you to easily change property values for various uses.
To create a new property group, do these steps:
  1. From the Property Group Manager view, select a system, open the pop-up menu and click New Property Group. The Property Group Editor opens. This editor contains a series of tabs that open each page of the editor.
  2. Type a name and description for the new property group. For example, to create a property group that contains property values for debugging COBOL programs, you might type DebugCOBOL for the name and Properties for debugging COBOL programs for the description.
  3. Click the Categories tab and select the check boxes beside the categories for which you want to enter values for this property group. You can choose from the following categories:
    • Assembler Settings
    • COBOL Settings
    • C/C++ Settings
    • PL/I Settings
    • BMS Settings
    • MFS Settings
    • JCL Job Card and Data Set
    • Link Options
    • Runtime Options
    • File Manager Settings
    The selections you make on this page determine the property tabs that appear in the editor. As you select or clear check boxes, the corresponding tabs are added or removed from the editor.
  4. Select each property category tab to open the property page for that category.
  5. On each property category page, specify property values to be included in the property group.
    • For fields that take partitioned data sets as their value, you can drag a partitioned data set name from the Remote Systems view, z/OS® Projects view, or Remote z/OS Search results view and drop it in the field. To change the order of partitioned data set names in a field, place the cursor in the field and click Change Order from the pop-up menu. The property group editor checks that the value in a data set field is valid:
      • The system for the data set is compared to the system for the property group. If the system for the data set is different, an error message is displayed.
      • The property group editor verifies that the value is an MVS™ data set rather than a partitioned data set member, z/OS UNIX System Services file, or local file.
      • If multiple data sets are dropped in a field that accepts only one data set, an error message is displayed.
      Click the Check Data Sets button to check that data sets specified in the step options field exist on the remote system.
      Note: If a data set name contains the <HLQ> variable substitution, Check Data Sets cannot validate the data set name.
    • For help with each property page, press F1 or click the help icon.
  6. When you close the Property Group Editor, Rational® Developer for System z® prompts you to save your changes. The name and description display in the Property Group Manager view. If you do not save your changes, the property group is not created.

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