This section describes some of the optional tasks you
may want to perform in your tooling framework to make your experience
with the tools more efficient.
This section describes how to open and close perspectives.
Do the following to open a perspective in the workbench:
- Select Window > Open Perspective > Other from
the menu bar of your workbench.
- At the "Select Perspective" dialog, choose
the perspective you want to open and click OK.
You can do the following to close perspectives:
- Select Window > Close Perspective to
close the currently active perspective.
- Select Window > Close All Perspectives to
close all currently open perspectives
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective shortcut
bar and choose Close from the context menu
to close that perspective.
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective shortcut
bar and choose Close All from the context
menu to close all open perspectives.
You can control the panes that are displayed in the WebSphere
WorkBench perspectives.
Do the following to show a view:
- Select Window > Show View > Other.
- Expand the folder for the view group, such as ICS Control View.
Note:
The acronym ICS refers
to InterChange Server Express.
- Select the particular view, such as InterChange Server Component Management.
- Click OK.
To close a view, do one of the following:
- Right-click the title bar of the view and choose Close from
the context menu.
- Click the close button in the title bar of the view.
You can customize a perspective to include the perspectives,
views, wizards, and plug-in interfaces that you want so that you
can minimize the number of times you have to open elements you use
frequently and close elements you do not need. Do the following
to customize the currently active perspective:
- Select Window > Customize Perspective from
the menu bar.
- Click on the node you want to customize to expand it.
- Enable and disable checkboxes for the node elements. Table 10 lists the customizable perspective nodes and the
effect that enabling them has.
You can save a perspective configuration to preserve customizations
you have made. Do the following to save a perspective:
- Select Window > Save Perspective As from
the tooling framework menu bar.
- Type a name for the perspective in the Name field.
- Click OK.
By default your tooling framework opens to the Resource perspective. If you primarily use the tooling framework to
work with integration components, you may want to make one of the
IBM InterChange Server Express perspectives the default. Do the
following to do so:
- Select Window > Preferences from
the menu bar of the tooling framework.
- Expand the Workbench node.
- Select the Perspectives node under the Workbench node.
- Select the desired perspective (such as System Manager) from the Available Perspectives list.
- Click Make Default.
- Click OK.
To set your System Manager preferences, do the following:
- Select Window > Preferences from
the menu bar of the workbench.
- Select System Manager Preferences and
do the following to configure the available preference options:
- If you do not want to be prompted when you delete a component
from an integration component library, enable the checkbox for the
component type in the "Do not confirm object deletion" pane.
Note:
Enabling the Unresolved Flows checkbox does not
have any effect on whether or not you receive a prompt when you
delete a flow from Flow Manager. For information on Flow Manager
and how to configure preferences for it, see the WebSphere InterChange Server: System Administration Guide.
- Enable the Deep Copy checkbox if you want
to copy a component's dependencies along with the component
when you perform a copy operation on it.
If Deep Copy is enabled and you copy a
business object definition from one library to another, then all
of the child business objects it contains are copied as well, for
example. If Deep Copy is not enabled, however,
and you copy a business object definition from one library to another,
then only the business object itself is copied.
For more information on dependencies, see Dependencies and references.
- Type the name and path of a file in the Log File field,
or click Browse to select a file. When errors occur
in System Manager, the error information is written to the file
specified. Type a number in the Max Size field
to specify the maximum size of the log file in megabytes.
- Click Restore Defaults to set the preferences
elements to their default values.
Figure 30 shows the System
Manager preferences interface.
- The "Broker Preferences" preference setting
should not be used. Do not make any entires under this preference
setting.
-
The "Compiler" preferences
interface allows you to specify the location of libraries required
by maps or collaborations that you develop so that the compiler
can locate them.
Do the following to set your compiler preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and
then select Compiler.
- Click New.
- At the "Add Classpath" dialog, navigate to
a library that you want to add to the compiler classpath, select
the library, and click Open.
Figure 31 shows the "Compiler" preferences
interface:
- The "Deployment Settings" interface allows
you to set options that are relevant when you deploy components
to a server from System Manager.
Do the following to set your deployment preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and
then select Deployment Settings.
- Enable the Overwrite Components in Server during Drag and Drop deployment checkbox.
Figure 32 shows the "Deployment
Settings" interface:
- The "System Monitor Settings" interface allows
you to configure the behavior of the monitoring features of the
InterChange Server Express Component Management view.
Do the following to set your System Monitor preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and
then select System Monitor Settings.
- Type the number of seconds in the Poll Interval field
that you want System Manager to wait in between checking the system
state to display information in the System View view.
Figure 33 shows the "System
Monitor Settings" interface:
For more information about the System View view, see the WebSphere InterChange Server: System Administration Guide.
- Click Apply to save your preferences and
continue working in the "Preferences" dialog,
or click OK to save your preferences and exit
the dialog.
