Creating an instance

You create an instance from a creation wizard.

Procedure

  1. Open the creation wizard in one of the following ways:
    • In the Design Explorer view, right-click an opened location, an entity line, or an instance line. In the contextual menu, select New and the entity type (Data Element for example).
      Note: To create a Logical View or Table, select New > Segment. Then, in the creation wizard, select Logical View or Table in the Segment type field.
    • In a design editor, create an instance from a field where you must call an instance. To do so, click New entity (where entity represents an entity type such as Data Element) after the list of instances in the selection wizard.
  2. Enter or select the appropriate values in the fields of the creation wizard.
  3. In the creation wizard of the generatable entities (except Database Blocks and Volumes), a Create a derived entity check box is available. Selecting it displays an <Entity to derive> field, where you can enter a reference instance to create a derived instance. This instance will not contain any design. It will include a link to the reference instance, a link to the Library that contains the generation parameters, and information that will be used for the generation.

    You create a derived instance to generate the reference instance from a different Library, without duplicating its design. The generation parameters of the derived instance Library produce a COBOL source different from the source that is generated from the Library of the reference instance.

  4. If you select Open editor on finish, the instance editor automatically opens on the Overview tab for all the entities except Macros. For Macros, it opens on the COBOL Source tab. From there, you can access the other tabs of the editor and specify all the characteristics of the instance.
  5. Click Finish.

Feedback