Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.5

Pacbase Explorer view

This view enables you to import Pacbase instances into your workspace, to edit these entity instances and to export them to PDP editor for updates.

Connection repository

The Pacbase Explorer view is part of the Pacbase Explorer perspective. In this view, you create connections to Pacbase databases so as to import entity instances from Pacbase Repository to your workspace. The entity instances are listed in a tree-structure. You need to expand a connection repository to see the list of instances already imported into your workspace, they are sorted by entity types as in the following picture:
The structure of the tree is the following one:
  • On the first branch of the tree, you find the connection repositories. The connection repositories are representing Pacbase databases. If the connection repository is open, its name is preceded by the active connection icon. If the connection is closed, its name is preceded by the inactive connection icon.
  • On the second branch of the tree, you find entity folders.
  • On the third branch of the tree, in the entity folders, you find the instances already imported. The number of imported instances is displayed next to the name of the entity repository, on the second branch of the tree.

Contextual menu

From the contextual menu of the Pacbase Explorer view, you can perform a number of operations on the database connections and on the Pacbase entities:

contextual menu from the connection repository in Pacbase explorer view

New connection
This menu opens a wizard that help you specify a new connection. The connection is created and is active once you have completed the wizard. It is saved empty.
Open PDP editor
If an instance is currently selected, this menu opens the selected instance in an editor on a read-only mode.
Fetch from Repository
This menu enables you to import instances from Pacbase Repository.
Save
This menu only applies to an active connection. It saves the connection parameters and contents.
Remove
If a connection is currently selected, this menu 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. These instances will actually be locally removed only after the connection is saved.
If an instance is currently selected, this menu graphically removes this instance. This instance will actually be locally removed only after the connection is saved.
Reference
You can search for an instance's super references, i.e the instances in which it is called, or its sub-references, i.e. the instances it calls. Selecting one of these choices makes you switch to the References view, where the search results are displayed.
Convert > Convert to PDP model
This menu enables you to open an instance or collection of instances in PDP editor in the Design perspective where you will be able to modify them.
Refresh
This menu enables you to refresh the display after updates.
Properties
Opens the properties view in a tab. This view displays the property names and values for a selected item. You find with the standard Advanced choice, the Overview choice that allows you to have a vision of the selected entity definition with the common part and the specific part of the definition.

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