Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Creating/Opening a location

Creating a location or opening an existing location is the first task to perform in the Design explorer view, 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

  1. You can create a location from the Design explorer view. To do so, right-click anywhere in this view 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, it is recommended 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 (via the New... > Pac Data Element or any other entity).
    • 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 perspective, into the current location (choice Convert > Convert to PDP model when you right-click on an instance in the Pacbase explorer view).
  2. You can create a location from the Pacbase explorer view of the Pacbase perspective, if it is available. To do so:
    1. Click on an active connection, select one or more instances and right-click.
    2. Select Convert > Convert to PDP model. A wizard opens up then.
    3. Check the instances to be converted, click Next. On the second page, enter a name for the target location. This location does not necessarily already exist.
    As a result, the newly-created location is displayed in your Design explorer view with the selected instances.
Results
Once a location is created, you open it in the Design explorer view by right-clicking on the line which represents the location and selecting Open in the popup menu.

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