Before you begin
Remote synchronization is available from the following views:
- The Navigator in the Resource perspective
- The z/OS Projects or Enterprise
Projects view
in the z/OS Projects or Enterprise
Development perspective
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:
- Defined a local project and its resources.
- Created a connection to a remote system.
- Connected to the remote system.
See the related topics for more information.
About this task
To enable remote synchronization of a project (that is, to
connect a local project to a remote system), do these steps:
Procedure
- Open the Navigator, z/OS Projects or Enterprise
Projects view, or Data Project
Explorer.
- 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
- From the Host Name drop-down list,
select a connected remote system.
- From the High-level Qualifier drop-down
list, select a high-level qualifier for your remote data sets.
- Optional: Select a property group to associate
with the remote resources. The property group defines
settings for building and running your application on the remote system.
Note: You
can skip this step if you have already associated a property group
with the remote resources. To create a new property group, click New. See
the related topics for information about property groups.
The Managed Synchronization window opens.
- Optional: To define local-to-remote mappings
for your project, click Enable Managed Synchronization?
The
Mappings Table is enabled.
- Optional: Use the mappings table to associate
local file extensions to remote locations as follows:
- 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.
- To remove a mapping, select it from the table and click Remove.
- To edit a mapping, select it in the table and click Edit.
- Click Finish to save your changes.
Results
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.