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How to Set the Target Environment

To set the target environment parameters, start the Construction Client, open a model, and select Code, then Environment, then Configuration. You can also access the environment parameters from the generation and packaging windows and dialogs. This allows you to set the parameters before you select components for generation or during component selection.

You can use the same specifications for all business systems in a model, or you can use different specifications for separate business systems. In either case, the following rules apply:

• The current release supports remote installation.
• You must define target environment parameters before you can generate remote files.
• Environment parameters are checked against a list of valid combinations on the server. Errors are reported before the settings are saved.
• Environment parameters apply to a particular business system and are stored as part of the business system for a model.
• You can provide temporary overrides of target environment parameters from the Generation Defaults window. Override values are stored locally (on the client machine).
• Environment parameters for the DDL and Referential Integrity (RI) triggers are specified separately. These objects apply to an entire model and do not belong to a particular business system.
• RI trigger and DDL target environment parameters are not stored on the model. RI trigger and DDL environment parameters are stored on the client machine.
• Environment parameter option Process modules marked for Compatibility applies to RI triggers when the target platform is z/OS. This option must be selected when the applications that use these RI triggers contain modules marked for Compatibility.
• Target environment parameters for the client and server portions of a client/server application may be different. These parameters are set during Packaging. You set window manager parameters for the client application and server manager parameters for the server application.
• Environment parameters for MFS devices are set at the Encyclopedia level.

Downstream Effects: The downstream effects of the environment parameters occur during generation and installation and during execution of the application system. The environment parameters enable the generated code to take advantage of certain features of the production environment. This usually results in improved application performance.