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Discovering objects

After connecting to the IBM i system, you can run a query to search for the required objects. You can browse the discovered objects navigation tree to understand the structure of objects in the IBM i system.

You can also search to display only the objects you need to produce a service that typically accesses one or more Enterprise information systems (EIS).

You must have successfully connected to the IBM i system.

To discover objects on the enterprise system, you can run the query to call the service in the Find Objects in the Enterprise System window of the external service wizard.


Procedure

  1. In the Find Objects in the Enterprise System window, click Edit Query to modify a query, corresponding to your needs. The Query Properties window is displayed.

  2. Specify a value to filter data queue or program matching the pattern. The acceptable characters in the search pattern are wildcard characters, such as asterisk (*) and question mark (?). Search result fetches files and is not case-sensitive. The result of running a typical query is shown in the following figure.

    The Discovered objects pane lists all the objects that are discovered based on your query.

  3. in the Discovered objects list, click + or the plus sign to expand a node and view the objects discovered by the wizard.

  4. Select the required objects from the Discovered objects list and click the > (Add) button to move these items to the Selected objects list.


Results

The wizard displays the objects that you have selected, which can be used by the adapter.


What to do next

Continue working in the external service wizard. The next step is to select the objects you want to use in your module and configure each object.

Configure the module for inbound processing