Publishing consolidated metadata to an IMS catalog

If the IMS catalog is enabled in your IMS system, you can publish to the IMS catalog the metadata that is consolidated from the DBD source and the COBOL copybooks or PL/I include files that are used by your application programs.

Procedure

To publish consolidated metadata to an IMS catalog:

  1. Export your IMS™ resources to z/OS®.
  2. Run the DBDGEN procedure.
  3. Run the ACB Generation and Catalog Populate utility (DFS3UACB) to reload your IMS catalog-enabled source.
  4. Run an online change utility or use the ACB member online change function to change the staging IMS.ACBLIB into the active IMS.ACBLIB. You can:
  5. In the Data Source Explorer, create a new IMS connection and select IMS catalog as your metadata source. Then, right-click on the database connection and select IMS Explorer > Refresh from IMS catalog.
  6. Test the DBD metadata that is part of the IMS catalog by creating a query to test the metadata in the IMS catalog. After the metadata is sufficiently tested, change the state to Tested with IMS Catalog Metadata.

Results

The tested DBDs are ready for direct data access from tooling or new application development, for example, JDBC or .NET application development.

What to do next

The JDBC application developers need to place this zip file in their classpath.




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