Best Practices for Host Integrator Modeling


Pre-Modeling Activities

 Review the host application and take advantage of host system experts to determine:  Determine the Number of Models Needed

 

Modeling Practices

As a common practice, you should avoid using both schemes together in one model because entity navigation paths and cursor positions can become out of synch.

 Use tables to manipulate host application data

 

 Set naming conventions

 

 Determine global settings

 

 Create concise operations

 

 Minimize patterns used to identify an entity

 

 Parameters and Constants

 

 Timing for 5250 Models

 

Optimizing the Model for Deployment

After you have completed your model, take these steps to prepare the model for optimum performance before deploying it to Host Integrator Server.

 Delete unnecessary entities   Delete unnecessary or unused attributes   Delete all unnecessary operations  Reduce the screen signature   Optimize Traversal Operations
  • Each traversal entity is named To<entity> and the destination entity matches this name.
  • Edit operations to remove the checkOperationConditions command if there are no pre or post conditions on this operation.
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    Troubleshooting Models

     Validate the model using Validator  Use Web Builder to Create a Web Client  Test possible error conditions for each operation  Test the model parameters

      Recognizing Screens as Entities  Synchronizing with the Host

     

    Working with Character Mode Host Applications

     

     

     

     

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