A connection is an access to a VA Pac Database. You must create
or open a connection for each new Database you want to access.
To create or open a connection, you need to open the
Pacbase
Explorer perspective. Then:
- To open an existing connection, right-click on it and select Open in
the popup menu.
- To create a connection, right-click anywhere in the view (except on an
existing connection) and select New connection in the
popup menu
There is no limit as to the number of connections.
A wizard guides you through the process of creating/opening a connection
- This first step only applies to the creation of a connection. When
you create a connection, you must first indicate the bases.ini file
to point to. This file, located in the common subdirectory
of your VA Pac installation, contains the list of the available Databases
you can connect to. Each Database is defined with its own access configuration
. 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 the VA Pac Documentation
URL:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=37&uid=swg27005477
- When you create or open a connection, you must then enter the information
related to your connection: in the Repository Connection page:
- Give a name to your connection.
- Select, among all the Databases displayed (which come from the bases.ini file),
the Database you want to connect to. Its code and location, as defined in
the bases.ini file, will then be displayed in the corresponding
fields.
- If a gateway is to be used, check the corresponding checkbox
and enter the hostname and port.
- In the Security page, enter the user code
and password to connect to the Database you selected in step 2, and the user
code and password to connect to the middleware.
- Select the Pacbase context, i.e. the session
library and view. This context will then be displayed in the bottom part of
the workbench.
- Click Finish/
Your connection is now active. It looks like this:

. If you close it,
the icon changes:

If you unfold it, you can see folders
(represented by a
icon) which correspond to the VA Pac entities. Each folder contains
the instances, if any, which have already been imported from the Database.