One way to populate your service flow project with message definitions
is to import existing application message formats.
You
can import COBOL message formats into
a message.
When you import a COBOL structure, a new message model is created consisting
of the elements, attributes, groups and types needed to represent your message
format. You choose the name of the message; if it already exists the content
is deleted and recreated as part of the import operation.
The new message model created can consist of both logical and physical
information, if appropriate physical formats exist in the message set at the
time of the import.
Client
application access to messages
Client applications also need access
to message definitions to be able to construct messages they send, and interpret
messages that they receive.
- If the message formats have been imported from a COBOL structure using
the workbench, your applications can continue to use the same COBOL data structure
that were imported to create the message dictionary.