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Generating an outbound COBOL driver running in batch mode (meet-in-the-middle scenario)

This topic illustrates how to generate an outbound COBOL driver running in batch mode using Enterprise Service Tools. This task is called "meet-in-the-middle."

Summary

To generate an outbound COBOL driver running in batch mode using Enterprise Service Tools:

  1. Create a z/OS® project and import source files for the project.
  2. Use the New XML to COBOL Mapping wizard to map the data structure of the schema to the COBOL copybook.
  3. Edit the mapping file to specify how to map the data structures.
  4. Generate the outbound converter from the mapping file.

Help topics

The following help topics provide more information about generating an outbound COBOL driver:

Demonstration

Generating an outbound converter (7.1)


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