Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Pacbase Explorer view

This view enables you to import VA Pac instances into your workspace and to view their whole browsers.

This Pacbase Explorer view, which is part of the Pacbase Explorer perspective, shows the database connections already created. Expanding a connection reveals the list of instances, sorted by entities, already imported into your workspace.
The popup menu in this view enables you to:
  • View all the information attached to an instance,
  • Import new instances,
  • Export instances to packages/projects,
  • Search for instances.

Here is what the Pacbase Explorer view looks like:

Like other views in the Workbench, the Pacbase Explorer view has its own toolbar. Toolbar buttons are provided for refreshing the view, navigating and creating new repository locations. The toolbar also contains a dropdown menu that allows you to filter the view by working set.

Toolbar

Back
This command redraws the view, showing the roots that where displayed immediately prior to the previous issued Go Into command. ?? OPERATIONNEL ??
Forward
This command redraws the view, showing the roots that where displayed immediately after the previous issued Go Into command.???
Up
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Expand all
This command expands all the branches of the connections already open in the Pacbase Explorer view.
Collapse all
This command collapses all the branches of the connections already open in the Pacbase Explorer view.
Refresh active connections
This command refreshes the contents of the active connections, i.e. all the changes performed in your wokspace on the instances called in the active connections.
Dropdown menu
The dropdown menu in the title bar allows the Pacbase Explorer view to be filtered by a working set.

Context menu

From the context menu of the Pacbase Explorer view, you can perform a number of operations on the database connections and on the VA Pac instances.

New connection
This command brings up the wizard to help you specify a new connection. The connection is created and is active once you have completed the wizard. It is saved empty.
Open
If a connection is currently selected, this command brings up the connection wizard where you enter your user code and password and specify the VA Pac context.
If an instance is currently selected, this command opens the selected instance in an editor. Since file revisions in the repository are immutable, the editor opens in a read-only state, so it is not modifiable.
Save
This command only applies to an active connection. It saves the connection parameters and contents.
Remove
If a connection is currently selected, this command removes the connection from the view.
If an entity is currently selected, this command graphically removes all the instances displayed in the selected entity branch, i.e. the instances which correspond to the Library-View selected in the Library manager view. These instances will actually be locally removed only after the connection is saved.
If an instance is currently selected, this command graphically removes this instance. This instance will actually be locally removed only after the connection is saved.
Check out
This command brings up the wizard to help you select the entities and number of instances for each entity to be imported into your workspace.
Export... > Export in EGL... or Export to Cobol/Pacbase...
This command brings up a wizard which displays, in a tree-like structure, the list of the instances already present in your workspace. The instances you will select here will be imported into the target location and project you will specify in the work environment you have selected (EGL or Cobol/Pacbase).
Local search
This command brings up a wizard which displays, in a tree-like structure, the list of the instances already present in your workspace. The instances you will select here will be imported into the target location and project you will specify.

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