Configure Controlled Extensions

To access this feature, click Configure your datasets on the SourceConnect tab.

This is one of the most important configuration parameters for SourceConnect. You will need to understand this statement, to be able to define and control mainframe files as SourceConnected files. This defines controlled extensions for input/output requests on the drive letters specified in the drive entries. Any file with an extension not in the list specified by this entry, or be in the default list, is written to the current working directory instead of to the relevant dataset on the mainframe. If an extension was defined in the partitioned dataset, Librarian dataset or Panvalet dataset, it does not have to be added here as well. This is done for you by SourceConnect.

Dataset Configuration Extensions tab

Extension to control: Specify the file extension that you want SourceConnect to control when accessing SourceConnect controlled drives. If the extension you are working with is not defined here, in the configure global extension overrides list, or in the default list supplied by SourceConnect, then SourceConnect will not try to access the file on the mainframe, but instead re-direct the request to the current working directory.

Use this entry to define which files Micro Focus tools can input/output to the mainframe. Do not include work files (such as .INT, .GNT, and .LST files) created by these tools in the list.

The following extensions are used by default:

ASSEM, ASSEMBLE, ASM, BMS, C, CBL, CIC, CNTL, CLIST, COB, COBOL, CONTROL, COP, COPY, COPYLIB, CPP, CPY, CSD, CTL, CTRL, DBD, DCT, DYL, ECL, FCT, GEN, H, INC, INCL, INCLUDE, JCL, JOB, LNK, MAC, MACLIB, MFS, MLC, PCT, PGM, PLI, PPT, PRC, PROC, PROCLIB, PSB, RCT, SCH, SRC, SOURCE, TSO, TXT, TEXT

There are a number of extensions you must not specify. These are as follows:

CSI, DLL, DLW, GDY, GNT, EXE, IDY, INT, LIST, LST, OBJ

Files with these extensions are always written to the current working directory. If you specified any of these extensions, a message is output when SourceConnect initializes.