Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

New Dialog wizard

Fill in all the fields of this wizard to create a Dialog.

Project
Choose a project in the dropdown list or enter the name of the project in which the instance will be saved.

A project represents the physical distribution of your instances in your workspace. It groups directories and files. It is used to organize resources which will be built, shared or versioned.

A Pacbase project contains a sub-set of files which correspond to the models and/or generated sources making up a Pacbase application.

There can be various projects for each location (a location is the equivalent of a database).

Package
Choose a package in the dropdown list or enter the name of a new package.

A package corresponds to a logical group of information.

The logical resources contained in a package can be distributed into various projects.

In the 'Navigator' view of the 'Design' perspective, you will see that the packages represent the branches of your projects. Each package contains its own instances.

For the resources transferred from Pacbase, the naming convention of a package will be {Repository Name}.{Library Path}.{Library Name} So respecting this naming when you create a package is a good idea. To reflect the library hierarchy, you can enter the library names (starting from the highest-level library), and separate each with a period (ex: 'COM.CIF'). This way, the 'Navigator' view will display a first-level branch, COM, with its instances, and a second-level branch, CIF, with its own instances.

Name
Enter the name here.

A Dialog name must be 2 characters long and must be constituted of alphabetic or numeric characters only.

Generation parameters
Generation parameters are specified in libraries. These parameters are related to the adaptation to the operating system in use.

You select the library by clicking the Browse... button.

Label
Enter the label, which identifies the new instance. It will then constitute a search criterion for a subsequent search.
Open editor on finish
Check this box if you want the editor of the instance you are creating to open up automatically. The editor will open up on the Overview tab. From there, you will be able to access the other tabs to specify all the characteristics of the instance.
Derive
Check this box if you want to create a derived instance from a referenced instance. From this derived instance, you can generate the code of the referenced instance without duplicating the instance's design. Checking this box displays two fields:
  • Derivation type. Depending on the entity, there can be one or two derivation types:
    • Library substitution is available on Programs, Screens, Data Structures (for the generation of the Copybooks) and Dialogs (for the generation of the error messages). In the derived instance, you can generate the code of the referenced instance from a different library, without duplicating the instance's design.
    • Source inheritance is available on Programs and Screens. From the derived instance, you can generate the referenced Program or Screen which includes specific code ; the Cobol source (i.e. the generated code and the specific code) of the referenced instance becomes the generated code in the derived instance and you can then add specific code to it. In turn, the derived instance can become the referenced instance for a new derived instance and the same process applies.
  • <Entity> to derive. In the wizard, <Entity> can be Program, Screen, Data Structure or Dialog. You select here the referenced instance, which contains the design and the specific code needed to generate the derived instance

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