# Program names upon generating IDL/XMM from WSDL **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Mainframe-Integration, EntireX\ **Created:** [April 5, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/program-names-upon-generating-idl-xmm-from-wsdl/100100 "2012-04-05T20:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Johnson1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/brian_johnson1/32/163_2.png) [@Brian\_Johnson1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Brian_Johnson1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/program-names-upon-generating-idl-xmm-from-wsdl/100100/1 "2012-04-05T20:21:00Z")
Wolfgang is familiar with this from SAG-L, but I am not getting anywhere there. Due to changes in the Designer tool with fixes I am getting, I now have two services for this project that both generate the IDL with the service program name of PROCESS. Since at least one requires a stub, it messes up the non-stub program, nor would I be able to have two stubs with the same name. Since it generates this from something it sees in the WSDL, that’s nothing I seem to have any control over. I was inquiring about how to change this, but when I change it in the IDL outline mode, it loses it’s connection to the XML mapping that was generated. The only way I can think of to fix this is to re-generate the XMM from the IDL but a warning now pops up that I will lose some key information that Designer put in there. Also, R&D chided me for doing this and said I should never ever modify the generated XML mappings by re-generating them using SOAP mappings instead of the customized ones. I wondered if I should utilize the new option in Designer where the program name is the alias instead, but when I tried this on another service, it doesn’t seem to know it’s a registered service by the service library & program anymore. I have no idea where to go from here. Please advise. ---
**Author:** ![Shmuel\_Coller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/shmuel_coller/32/370_2.png) [@Shmuel\_Coller](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Shmuel_Coller)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/program-names-upon-generating-idl-xmm-from-wsdl/100100/2 "2012-04-05T20:57:00Z")
Hi Brian, I am on vacation next week - otherwise you could have Netviewer seesion with me as Global Supporter . The way to go is : when you extract IDL from WSDL , do not use alias name; uncheck Designer option to generate unique short names. This will give you simple one name - no alias - for example: library ‘Brian’ is program ‘isTheBest’ is Next step - to achive full control over name: Right click IDL \>\>\> Edit Software AG mapping On the rightmost Outline pane rightClick on the program name (isTheBest) , Rename, choose your name - and save. Do Save, you will get: library ‘Brian’ is program ‘Johnson’ is If the IDL and XMM get out of sync (it should not) - bypass is to delete the IDL; right click on .xmm , Open with, choose XML Mapping Editor. This will create the IDL from .xmm Please follow Empower Fixes tree for latest Designer fixes for your version; there were quite a few on this issue. I dealt with such incidents using Global Support tickets - you can try. Next week in beautiful Bavaria, Shmuel ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Johnson1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/brian_johnson1/32/163_2.png) [@Brian\_Johnson1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Brian_Johnson1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/program-names-upon-generating-idl-xmm-from-wsdl/100100/3 "2012-04-05T21:34:04Z")
Hi Shmuel, I didn’t know you could delete the IDL and have Designer generate it backwards from the XMM. I will work with that and see if I can retrofit some sensible names for the service IDL library and program so we can have them make sense. Thanks for the suggestion! I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities for the Netviewer session… this is just the tip of the iceberg for the EntireX problems I am facing. Regds, ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/program-names-upon-generating-idl-xmm-from-wsdl/100100/4 "2021-04-02T15:01:44Z")