Setting the REXX Gateway client to communicate with the server

Before you can use the System z® Jazz™ Gateway server, you must configure the REXX Gateway client by completing the following steps:
  1. Using the instructions in the sample REXX, configure member BLZGWCLI in hlq.SBLZSAMP. Set the parameters for the server address where the gateway is running and the port number that the gateway is monitoring. If you use an encrypted password file, set your ASCII and EBCDIC code pages. The password has been encrypted in ASCII but the other parameters are set to EBCDIC prior to being passed through to the gateway. Therefore, the encrypted password string also must be converted to EBCDIC. By default the code pages are set to ISO8859-1 for ASCII and IBM-1047 for EBCDIC.
  2. To test the System z Jazz Gateway server, configure member BLZGWTST in the hlq.SBLZSAMP data set using the instructions in the sample REXX.
    Remember: If you use an encrypted password file, set the password variable to the literal <file> to instruct the REXX Gateway client to get the password file from the user's home directory. See Creating an encrypted password file for the System z Jazz Gateway.
  3. To run the test enter TSO EX hlq.SBLZSAMP(BLZGWTST).
    Note: This command is a sample and hlq.SBLZSAMP is the name of the data set where you uploaded the members. Your data set name might be different.
    • If you set the test to return the work item status and if the work item exists, you will receive a message indicating the status of the work item similar to:
      Workitem number 1 is in New status.
      .
    • If you set the test to return the full XML, you will receive the following message and the view will change to the returned XML:
      XML Returned for workitem number 1.

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