Introduction › Setting Up Generate and Build Options

Setting Up Generate and Build Options

When you generate and build code, you need to tell CA Plex about your application development environment. To do this, you set options in the CA Plex Generate and Build window.

The options you specify for a model are stored in a file in the same directory as the model. It has the same name as the model, but has a .bld extension (in the case of this tutorial, the build file is Tutorial5250.bld).

Before continuing in this section, ask your System i Network Administrator what type of connection you will make to the System i server (TCP/IP), and get the following information. For TCP/IP connections:

• A fully qualified network address

  Such as myAS400.local.mycompany.com

• Server port
• Code page
• User name
• Password