Rational Developer for System z

Creating a screen operations file

You can create a screen operations file either by creating a new screen operations file or else by recording a screen operations file in the host editor.

Creating a new screen operations file

To create a new screen operations file:
  1. Open the New Screen Operations File wizard:
    1. Right-click anywhere in the EST Project Explorer.
    2. Select New Screen Operations File.
    The New Screen Operations File window opens.
  2. On the first page of the wizard:
    1. In the File name field, type the name that you want to use for the new screen operations file.
    2. In the Destination Project field, select the folder to which you want to add the new screen operations file.
    3. Click Finish.
    Note: Alternatively, you can open this wizard by selecting File > New > Screen Operations File on the main menu of the workbench.
  3. A new, empty screen operations file is created and the screen operations editor is automatically used to open the new file.

Recording a screen operations file

You can record a screen operations file in either of two ways:
  • You can record a screen operations file at the same time that you are recording a flow.
  • You can record a screen operations file by itself.

To control a terminal application, you need a screen operations file and a flow that references that screen operations file. In many situations it is easier to record these two files at the same time, rather than recording the screen operations file first and then later recording the flow file.

However, you might have design reasons for choosing to record a screen operations file separately from the flow file that references it. For example, your business organization might plan to develop three separate screen operations files in parallel and then record a single flow file that references the three screen operations files. Or, you might be updating an older flow that already a screen operations file associated with it.

To record a screen operations file and at the same time record a flow file that references that screen operations file, follow the steps described in Recording a flow, and make sure that the Working Set listbox of the Screen Operations File Selection drawer contains only the entry [Untitled] (this is the default setting).

To record a screen operations file by itself, follow the steps described in Recording a screen operations file.


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