Rational Developer for System z

Configuring default property values

You configure default property values for a remote system by creating a set of configuration files on that system.
Configuring default property values enables you to define site-specific defaults for particular properties. When a user connects to a system for the first time, Rational® Developer for System z® determines whether a default values file exists on the system. If so, the default values are stored in the workspace so that whenever users create a new property group for that system, the defaults from the default values file are used. For properties that do not have default values in the default values file, the default Rational Developer for System z property values are used. If the default values file on the system is updated after the default values are transferred to the workspace, users are prompted to replace the defaults in the workspace with the ones from the system. If no default property values are configured for a remote system then the system uses default values shipped with Rational Developer for System z.

To configure default property values on a remote system, you need to define a default values file that defines property values that are available to users when they connect to the system for the first time.

When a user connects to a system for the first time, Rational Developer for System z determines whether a default values file exists on the system. If so, the default values are stored in the workspace so that whenever users create a new property group for that system, the defaults from the default values file are used. For properties that do not have default values in the default values file, the default Rational Developer for System z property values are used. If the default values file on the system is updated after the default values are transferred to the workspace, users are prompted to replace the defaults in the workspace with the ones from the system. The default values file is defaultvalues.xml and contains the following tags. It must be encoded in UTF-8. See the related topics for the default values schema.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DEFAULT-VALUES>
  <CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
    <CATEGORY>category name</CATEGORY>
    <PROPERTY>
      <NAME>property name</NAME>
      <VALUE>property value</VALUE>
    </PROPERTY>
  </CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
</DEFAULT-VALUES>
<CATEGORY-INSTANCE>
Specify one <CATEGORY-INSTANCE> tag for each property category for which you want to define default values. This tag can contain one <CATEGORY> tag and one or more <PROPERTY> tags.
<CATEGORY>
Specify the name of a property category for which you want to define default values. See the Related References for a list of valid category names.
<PROPERTY>
Specify one or more property <NAME> and <VALUE> pairs to include for the category. See the Related References for a list of valid property names.

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