Loading artifacts to Rational® Developer
for System z® involves loading
your Rational Team Concert™ for System z repository
workspace into an Eclipse workspace. If you have not already, you
must create and share a zComponent project before you complete the
steps below. You can create a sample zComponent project by completing
the steps in the tutorial,
Using the Rational Build Agent and Antz build extensions to compile a COBOL application.
Note: During the load, artifacts
will be reloaded into the local Eclipse workspace. If you have local
changes that have not been checked in, they could be overwritten.
Complete the following steps to load artifacts from Rational Team Concert for System z to Rational Developer for System z. (These steps use examples from
the tutorial as illustrations.)
- From the Team Artifacts view, right-click
a repository workspace or a component in a repository workspace and
select .
- In the Load zFiles to z/OS panel, select
the MVS subproject to which you want to load your zFiles.
- Click Next.
- On the Specify build context panel, click Browse to
select a build definition
and click OK.
The Load zFiles to z/OS wizard
obtains the data set prefix from the build definition if it is specified
and adds that prefix to each data set member that is created on the
host and loaded into the subproject. A data set prefix must be defined
in the build definition before you can continue. By default, the repository
workspace that is specified in the build definition will be used.
If you want to use your own repository workspace, you must choose
it explicitly in the build context selection page.
- A build definition typically specifies the prefix that the team
build uses. To make sure that you can work on your artifacts in isolation,
change the prefix that is specified in the build definition to your
own prefix. To modify the prefix, select teamz.scm.dataset.prefix from
the Build Properties list and click Edit.
- On the Select Property Type panel, select String from
the list of new property types and click OK.
- On the Edit Build Request Property panel
change the value from MASAO.BLD to your prefix
and click OK. (For this example, we changed
the value to BGREEN.BLD.)
Important: Make sure that the credentials you used to make the
RSE connection to the host have the authority to create and modify
a data set with the prefix you set in the value field.
- Click Next to view the summary page.
- On the summary page verify that your zFile is being loaded to
the proper location on MVS™ and
then click Finish.
Verifying that the load was successful
Confirm
that the
Hello.cbl program appears in the
Remote
Systems view in the expected location.
Next,
from the z/OS Projects view, confirm that the Hello.cbl program
is contained in the MVS subproject.
Edit the
COBOL file from the MVS subproject
in the z/OS Projects perspective
and save the change. The remote member and local zFile will be in
sync. You can open the same COBOL file from the zComponent project
to verify that your saved change appears there.
Tip: If
the Load zFiles to z/OS wizard ends in error,
open the .log file in the .metadata folder in your Eclipse workspace
for additional information.