Rational Developer for System z

Migrating properties to property groups

When you migrate a workspace from a previous release of Rational® Developer for System z®, WebSphere® Developer for System z, or WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer, resource properties are migrated to property groups.

Projects and subprojects

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Rational Developer for System z examines local COBOL and PL/I projects and MVS™ subprojects for properties that have been moved to property groups. If a project or subproject contains such properties, it creates a property group and associates it with the project or subproject. For a project, the name of the property group is the name of the project followed by " Property Group." For an MVS subproject, the name of the property group is the full path name of the subproject followed by " Property Group." The following table provides examples of project, subproject, and property group names.
Table 1. Property migration for projects and subprojects
Resource type Resource name Property group name
Local COBOL project LocalCOBOL LocalCOBOL Property Group
MVS subproject

Project: Proj1
Subproject: Subproj

Proj1/Subproj1 Property Group

Files and data sets

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If properties have been assigned to the files or directories inside a local COBOL or PL/I project or to the partitioned data sets and members in an MVS subproject, Rational Developer for System z creates overrides for them. For each project or subproject, there is one property group at the project or subproject level and overrides for the properties of the resources in the project or subproject. See Overriding property groups for more information.

Systems

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Rational Developer for System z migrates properties assigned to the MVS Files subsystem in the Remote Systems view to a property group associated with the subsystem. The name of the property group is the name of the system followed by " Property Group." The following table provides examples of project, subproject, and property group names.
Table 2. Property migration for projects and subprojects
System name Property group name
MVSSYS01 MVSSYS01 Property Group
system.domain.com system.domain.com Property Group

Property export files

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In previous releases, users were able to export subproject properties or MVS Files subsystem properties into XML files. You can import these properties in to a property group. Rational Developer for System z creates a single property group that holds the property values defined in the XML file. The name of the property group is "Imported Property Group." If there is already a property group with that name, then a number is added at the end to make a unique name, such as "Imported Property Group 2." See Importing property groups for more information.

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