A connection is an access to a Pacbase Database. You must create
or open a connection repository for each new Database you want to access to.
You open or create new connection directories to various Pacbase databases
from thePacbase Explorer view of the perspective. To
be able to access to Pacbase databases, be sure you have all the necessary
access authorizations required, user codes and passwords to a Pacbase database
and middleware access too.
To create a connection, right-click anywhere in the view (except
on an existing connection) and select New connection in
the popup menu. A wizard guides you through the process of creating a connection.
- In the Connection wizard that opens, you
must first indicate the path to the configuration file bases.ini.
This file usually saved in the common local directory,
contains the list of the available Databases you can connect to. Each Database
is defined with its own access parameters. For more information about this
file, refer to the 'Installation Guide - Server and Client Components', chapter 'Installation
of client components', subchapter 'Editing Communication Parameters'
at Pacbase documentation page:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=37&uid=swg27005477
- Once the path to the configuration file is entered, click Next.
In the Repository Connection window, enter the information
related to the database connection and the gateway access if necessary. Then,
click Next.
- In the Security window, enter your user
codes and passwords to connect to the Database and to the middleware. Once
this done, click Next.
- In the Pacbase context window, select the
type of the session, a working library and a view. This context will then
be displayed in a status bar, in the bottom part of the workbench.
- Click Finish/
There is no limit as to the number of connections.
The new connection repository is displayed in the Pacbase Explorer
view list with the
icon. Unfold the repository, you will
find
icons with Pacbase entity names. Each folder corresponds to a Pacbase
entity, the repositories are empty at creation as you have imported no entity
instances the Repository yet.
Once a connection repository is created,
you can see just after its name, between brackets the name of the database,
followd by the session number, the library name and the letter that corresponds
to the view you have selected for the import process. In our example, data
elements have been imported from a database whom name is 'DEMO', in a current
session, from the 'PRO' library with the '(A) Current and above
with doubles' vision.