Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 2.1: Configuring a connection to an iSeries system.
After you configure a connection to an iSeries system, you can easily connect and expand your new connection to reveal your subsystems. Subsystems are pre-defined filters grouping the various types of remote resources that can be explored in the remote system. There are four subsystems.
To connect to an iSeries system:
In addition there are entries for working with library lists and user libraries:
You also have more entries to work with under the connection itself and you can see from these entries that Remote System Explorer goes well beyond PDM! It allows you to explore iSeries jobs and commands and the IFS file system.
Now let's work with a library in your library list and add the library that you'll be using in this tutorial:
This will add the library RSELABxx to your library list every time you use this connection.
Now the connection will be activated and you will be prompted for a user ID
and password.
As you know, you can use the properties of any of the subsystems to set connection information such as adding a library to a library list.
Back in the workbench in the Remote Systems view you will see the libraries
in your job's library list.
Notice that the s400a folder now has a small green arrow in the icon to indicate it is an active connection.
For each library, you can right-click and select from a number of actions. For example, there is an action to create a new source file within the selected library. Common actions like delete, move, copy, etc. are valid for all kinds of objects.
You have connected to an iSeries system and now you are ready to begin Exercise 2.3: Viewing and accessing objects in the Remote System Explorer perspective.
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