Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Creating/Opening a location

Creating a location or opening an existing location is the first task to perform, since a location gives you access to the instances involved in the design of your application. The location concept can then be related to the database concept

To create a location, you must:
  1. Right-click anywhere in the 'Design explorer' view of the 'Design' perspective. and
    1. Select New > Location... in the popup menu.
    2. In the wizard which opens up, you must give a name to your location. Since a location can be compared to a database, a good idea would be to name the location after the database
    As a result, the newly-created location is displayed in your 'Design explorer' view. Clicking on it reveals the entity branches, with no instance. To fill your location with instances, you must:
    • Create new instances directly in the 'Design explorer' view.
    • Import, into the current location, a file containing a set of instances (via the Import choice of the contextual menu of the Design explorer view).
    • Convert instances to the Pattern Driven Programming (PDP) model, from the Pacbase explorer view of the Pacbase explorer perspective, into the current location (choice Convert > Convert to PDP model when you right-click on an instance in the Pacbase explorer view).
  2. Or, if the 'Pacbase explorer' view of the 'Pacbase explorer' perspective is available:.
    1. Click on an active connection and select Export in the popup menu.
    2. In the wizard which opens up, you select the instances to be exported and the location they must be exported to.
    As a result, the newly-created location is displayed in your 'Design explorer' view with the selected instances.
Once a location is created, you open it in the 'Design explorer' view of the 'Design' perspective if you right-clicki on it and select Open in the popup menu which opens up.
Related reference
The 'Design explorer' view

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