A property group is a collection of resource properties that are defined and maintained as a set and associated with a particular local or remote system. Rational Developer for System z uses property groups to make defining, updating, and sharing resource properties easier and more manageable.
Property groups are defined in the Property Group Manager at the system level. You create a new property group using the Property Group Manager and assign it to a resource using the Associate Property Group action from the z/OS® Projects or Remote Systems views. A property group that has been assigned to a resource is called the current property group.
Rational Developer for System z migrates properties defined in a previous release for local COBOL and PL/I projects, MVS subprojects, and MVS Files into property groups. It can also import property XML files created in a previous release into property groups.
You can learn more about migrating properties into property groups from the following topics:
The Import Properties and Export Properties actions for MVS subprojects, local COBOL and PL/I projects, and MVS Files have been replaced by the Import and Export actions in the Property Group Manager. Instead of importing and exporting properties for a specific resource, you can import and export one or more property groups.
You can learn more about importing and exporting property groups from the following topics:
You can look at specific property values using the Property Group Manager view in the z/OS Projects perspective.
If you open a resource Properties window and the table on the Property Group page is empty, you can take one of the following actions:
There are several ways to change a property value:
Yes. You can still change a property for a single data set member or file by overriding a property group setting.
You can learn more about overriding property values from the following topics: