The management of these change requests involves some source promotion administration. The following activities are done on the system where the request originated:
The applicable nodes must be configured identically in the @PROM_CONSTANTS table on both the source and target systems. For more information on setting up this table, refer to
Chapter 2, Preparing For Promotions.
Specifically in target promotions administration, change requests are made available in the target system in external files created in the source system.
Before making your change requests available in another system, you must extract them in their source system. When you extract change requests, a copy of all change request information, object definitions, data, and other control information is combined into external files.
You can extract change requests in the source system by accessing one of the source promotion administration functions and using the
X (Extract) command. Refer to
Chapter 3, Source Promotions for more information on this process.
If the source and target TIBCO Object Service Broker systems are in different operating environments (for example, the source system is on a workstation, and the target is on a z/OS system), you must also transfer the files across the two platforms. If you use FTP, transfer the files using binary mode with the z/OS FTP LOCSITE subcommand with NORDW parameter specified. Then use the S6BBRFRU z/OS batch utility to reformat the files after transferring them from Windows or Solaris, or before transferring them from z/OS.
To simplify target promotion administration, create a promotion request that contains a number of individual change requests. This leaves only the one request to manage. For information on creating a consolidated request, refer to
Chapter 3, Source Promotions.
TIBCO Object Service Broker for z/OS Utilities for detailed information about using S6BBRFRU.