Version 9.7
 —  EntireX Adapter Installation and User's Guide  —

Preparing for IMS

This document describes how to prepare for connections to IMS. It covers the following topics:

Important:
If the terms and concepts in this chapter are unfamiliar to you, please work with the appropriate IMS system programmer. Only authorized personnel should make changes to mainframe computer systems.


Extracting from COBOL Source

Use the IDL Extractor for COBOL. See the EntireX Workbench documentation for more information.

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Extracting from Message Format Service (MFS)

To extract interface definitions from Message Format Service (MFS) with MID and MOD definitions, use a command line extractor. This extractor is run with the following command line:

java -classpath <suite installation folder>\IntegrationServer\packages\WmEntireX\code\jars\entirex.jar com.softwareag.entirex.ims.extractor.MFSExtractor <inputfile>

The input file has to be an MFS source with MID and MOD definitions. The output is an IDL file with the same name as the input file, except for the suffix ".idl" which is appended. The IDL file can be used to generate connections and adapter services with the webMethods Integration Server Wrapper (see the EntireX Workbench documentation) .

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Troubleshooting

This section describes how to fix errors in the IMS Connect connection or the IMS Connect RPC server.

Problem Solution
If the IMS Connect connection uses a port which is not related to IMS but to some other application, a call may result in the following message: Unable to invoke adapter service <service name>. [ADA.800.500] WmEntireX: exception while executing service: 2011 0303 java.io.EOFException Correct the configuration of the port.
If the IMS Connect RPC server uses a port which is not related to IMS but to some other application, a call may result in the following message: exception while executing service: 2011 0303 java.io.EOFException Correct the configuration of the port.

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