Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Enabling remote synchronization

Remote synchronization is available from the following views:
Note: If you want to connect Enterprise Service Tools single-service projects to a remote system, open the Navigator and look for your projects there. The EST Project Explorer does not support remote synchronization.
Before you can use remote synchronization you need to have completed the following tasks: See the related topics for more information.
To enable remote synchronization of a project (that is, to connect a local project to a remote system), do these steps:
  1. Open the Navigator, z/OS Projects view, or Data Project Explorer.
  2. Select the project you want to connect to a remote system and then click Remote > Enable Remote Synchronization from the pop–up menu. The Remote System Settings window opens
  3. From the Host Short Name drop-down list, select a connected remote system.
  4. From the High Level Qualifier drop-down list, select a high-level qualifier for your remote data sets and then click Next. The Managed Synchronization window opens.
  5. Optional: To define local-to-remote mappings for your project, click Enable Managed Synchronization?
    Note: If you want to skip this step, you can add mappings later using the Pushable Manifest Editor. See Mapping local files to remote resources for more information.
    The Mappings Table is enabled.
  6. Optional: Use the mappings table to associate local file extensions to remote locations as follows:
    1. To add a mapping, click Add. Type a local file extension in the Extension field and a remote data set name in the MVS Mapping field and click OK.
    2. To remove a mapping, select it from the table and click Remove.
    3. To edit a mapping, select it in the table and click Edit.
  7. Optional: You can use the remaining pages in this wizard to set remote system properties for your local project. The remote properties define settings for building and running your application on the remote system.
    Note: If you want to skip this step, you can set remote system settings later by selecting your project and then selecting Remote Properties from the pop-up menu. See the context-sensitive helps for more information on specific properties pages or fields.
  8. Click Finish to save your changes.
This process enables remote synchronization by creating the following files in the project:
.RemoteMapping
This file stores local-to-remote file mappings for the project. To add, remove, or edit mappings, double-click this file. The Pushable Manifest Editor opens.
.RemoteSyntaxProperties
This file stores remote system properties for the project. To edit these properties, select the project name and then select Remote Properties from the pop-up menu. Do not edit this file manually; use the properties page to edit it instead. Multiple users can share the properties by keeping the .RemoteSyntaxProperties file in a central repository.
For local z/OS projects, this process also enables remote syntax check. Because remote syntax check requires information about the remote system to set up default properties, you must be connected to a remote system before enabling remote synchronization on a local z/OS project.
Note: Local z/OS project refers to workstation-based projects, such as local COBOL or PL/I projects. Do not confuse these with remote z/OS projects and subprojects.

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