Main Frame Installation

When Enterprise Developer correctly parses the default Connection file, it creates a z/OS connection in the Remote Systems View for each configured default connection. Important: Enterprise Developer reads the default Connection file only as soon as for every workspace. This potential that any adjustments relating to default connections will now not practice to present workspaces that have already been used. Assuming you have the appropriate Enterprise Developer for z Systems license, after installing z/Server you should verify the connectivity.

To confirm mainframe connectivity:

Start Eclipse.

Ensure the Team Developer viewpoint is loaded. If it is not visible, select Window > Open Perspective > Other > .

Right-click in the Remote Systems view and pick out New > Connection.

Select "z/OS" from the connection list and click on Next.

Enter the TCP/IP address or title of your mainframe system and enter a connection title that will be displayed in the view. Click Next.

Enter the right connection port and the default encoding parameters. Ask your device administrator if you do not comprehend the correct parameters.

Click Finish. The z/OS entry is brought to the view.

To affirm the patron host connection:

Start Eclipse and switch to the Team Developer perspective.

Expand the z/OS connection entry in the Remote Systems view. If the z/OS entry is not shown in this view, verify the consumer installation process first.

Right-click on the MVS entry and verify, or customize, the port number of the z/Server server (the default is 1111).

Right-click on the MVS entry and select Connect.

Enter your mainframe consumer ID and password and click on OK. After a profitable connection the colour of the icons modifications to green.

Right-click again on the MVS entry and select Disconnect to disconnect from the host system.

Mainframe Access server (MFA)

Mainframe Access is the OS/390 and z/OS server for Micro Focus development environments. It is a common issue offering get right of entry to to host sources for environments. One set up of Mainframe Access can help all of these products, imparting connectivity to any quantity of DB2, IMS, and CICS systems located somewhere in an enterprise. It can also furnish get right of entry to to JES facilities, VSAM statistics sets, non-VSAM data sets, and information managed by external library management products such as Panvalet, Librarian and Endeavor.

Features include:

The Drag and Drop utility permits you to transfer archives the use of drag and drop methods, between the mainframe and the PC environments.

The Remote Job Step Execution (RJSE) facility allows execution of one or extra steps of a job on a faraway z/OS host. It mechanically uploads and downloads required files as vital with an cease result the equal as when all steps are carried out locally.

Compare and Synchronization Monitor lets in you to evaluate mainframe data sets towards laptop directories. Where differences occur, you can synchronize the information. This can manifest in either direction, or both directions. Typically, you would down load mainframe partitioned facts sets to a notebook directory.

You can use Source Connect to map a PC power to a mainframe dataset or catalog filter. You can then get entry to mainframe archives and sources from a PC, or from applications jogging on a PC.

Installing Mainframe Access Server

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