Topology view

The Topology view displays a read-only graphical view of the peer relationships between objects in your enterprise.

This view shows peer relationships between databases, schemas, and tables. For example, you can see all of the objects in a WebSphere® Information Integrator server and the federated databases that it connects to. You also can view the information for remote tables and determine whether nicknames are defined for those tables on the WebSphere Information Integrator server.

To open the Topology view, right-click a database, schema, or table in the Data Source Explorer, and select Visualize Topology Diagram. If the Topology view is open and you refresh the connection to the server, the Topology view diagram is refreshed with the most recent contents as shown in the Database Explorer.

A dashed line in the Topology view shows peer relationships between source objects and target objects. A peer relationship line can show connections between nicknames, tables, views, materialized query tables (MQTs), and table aliases.

When you right-click an object in the topology diagram, you can use the context menu to expand, collapse, hide, and show objects. To set preferences for this view, click the Preferences push button. In the Preferences window, you can filter which relationships you want to view and specify how the text is displayed on the icons.

You cannot save this view. However, you can print the topology diagram as a PDF document if you have a PDF printer driver installed.


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