You can connect a local project to a remote system and
map local files to remote data sets.
A local project is one in which resources are created and
stored locally. You can create a local z/OS® project,
for example, when you want to compile your COBOL or PL/I applications
to run on a Windows or AIX® workstation. Rational® Developer for System z® provides a suite of tools, such
as Enterprise Service Tools and Database Application Generator, that
create local projects containing host-based resources. The following
examples of local projects contain host-based resources:
- A local z/OS project containing
workstation COBOL or PL/I resources
- An Enterprise Service Tools single-service project supporting
web services for CICS®, SOAP
for CICS, an IMS™ SOAP gateway, or batch, TSO, or z/OS UNIX System
Services applications
- An Enterprise Service Tools service flow project
While the resources in these types of projects are created
locally, they are often intended for transfer to a remote system. Remote
synchronization is a set of tools that you can use to quickly
transfer resources from a local project to a remote system in a systematic,
repeatable way. It includes the following tools:
- A menu command for creating a connection from a local project
to a remote system.
- A mapping editor for associating local files with their remote
counterparts.
- Options for either manually or automatically synchronizing the
project with the remote system.
The remaining topics in this section explain how to do the following
tasks: