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Importing message definitions from other model representations

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.

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