Installing EntireX Java Components under z/OS UNIX

This document describes how to install EntireX Java components under z/OS UNIX. It covers the following topics:

Scope
Installation Steps
Configuring and Administering the Java Components

Scope

The following EntireX Java components can be used under z/OS UNIX:

Java RPC Server/Client
XML/SOAP RPC Server/Client
RPC Server for IBM MQ
Listener for IBM MQ
RPC-ACI Bridge
XML/SOAP Listener
CICS ECI RPC Server
IMS Connect RPC Server

Installation Steps

Start of instruction set To install EntireX Java components under z/OS UNIX

Unload the delivered installation medium to your DASD device. See Copying the Contents of the Installation Medium to Disk.
On your UNIX system, create a directory for the installation. For example:
```
mkdir SoftwareAG; cd SoftwareAG;
```
Copy the file hlq.EXXvrs.TAR to the created directory, where hlq is your high-level qualifier and vrs is the product version, release and service pack:
```
tso "oput 'hlq.EXXvrs.TAR' 'SoftwareAG/exxvrs.tar' binary"
```
Unpack the TAR file:
```
tar xvfo exxvrs.tar
```

Now you have created a folder structure with subdirectories EntireX and WS-Stack which contain all necessary files in several subdirectories. In the EntireX/bin directory you have an environment file exx_zos_env.sh, which you can source to set your environment. Before sourcing the environment, edit this file and set the environment variable EXXDIR to your EntireX directory. Then you can enter the following command (note the space after the initial period):

. ./exx_zos_env.sh

Check your Java installation and edit the file exxjenv.sh in the EntireX/bin directory. You need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to your corresponding Java installation.

Bourne shell scripts are provided in the EntireX/bin directory to start the different RPC servers.

To use the XML/SOAP RPC Server, configure the path to the example.xmm file. Edit the file EntireX/config/entirex.xmlrpcserver.configuration.xml and adapt the pathname in the exx-xmm tag. This file is already in EBCDIC format and the encoding has been set to CP037. If you need a different encoding, change this setting accordingly.

Configuring and Administering the Java Components

The following links provide more information on configuring and administering the EntireX Java components under UNIX.

EntireX Java Component	More Information
Java RPC Server	Java RPC Server
RPC Server for IBM MQ	RPC Server for IBM® MQ
Listener for IBM MQ	Listener for IBM® MQ
RPC-ACI Bridge	EntireX RPC-ACI Bridge
XML/SOAP RPC Server	XML/SOAP RPC Server
XML/SOAP Listener	XML/SOAP Listener
CICS ECI RPC Server	CICS ECI RPC Server
IMS Connect RPC Server	IMS Connect RPC Server

The following table shows the provided start script and configuration file for each RPC server.

RPC Server	Script in EntireX/bin	Config File in EntireX/config
Java RPC Server	`jrpcserver.bsh`	`entirex.javarpcserver.properties`
XML/SOAP RPC Server	`jxmlrpcserver.bsh`	`entirex.xmlrpcserver.properties`
RPC Server for IBM MQ	`wmqbridge.bsh`	`entirex.wmqbridge.properties`
Listener for IBM MQ	`wmqlistener.bsh`	`entirex.wmqbridgelistener.properties`
RPC-ACI Bridge	`jrpcacibridge.bsh`	`entirex.rpcacibridge.properties`
CICS ECI RPC Server	`cicseciserver.bsh`	`entirex.cicseci.properties`
IMS Connect RPC Server	`imsconnectserver.bsh`	`entirex.imsconnect.properties`

For the XML/SOAP Listener you need to set up a Web server and install Software AG Web Services Stack to this Web server. See Configure the Web Services Stack Runtime in the Software AG Infrastructure Administrator's Guide, also available under http://documentation.softwareag.com > Guides for Tools Shared by Software AG Products. After successful installation, copy or upload <inst_dir>/EntireX/classes/entirex.jar to the WEB-INF/lib folder in the Web Services Stack application folder.