Importers

J2C Tools include a number of importers, including importers for the C language, for COBOL, and for PL/I.

IMS™ or CICS® ECI transactions are often written in COBOL, C, or PL/I languages. If you are coding Java™ applications to access these transactions via J2C resource adapters, the Java application will need to serialize values from Java to the type of byte buffer that the IMS or CICS program expects. The importers are tools that deliver this data mapping. Once you import a COBOL, C, or PL/I file into your project, you can work with this data as you would with any data construct.

Preferences for the importers can be selected in two ways:

  1. By using the importer Preferences window to change the default COBOL, C, or PL/I importer settings.
  2. By setting the parameters for an individual data binding class in the Importer page of the J2C wizard.
Parent topic: Connecting to enterprise information systems
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