Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 2.2: Connecting to an iSeries system.
Now you are ready to view and access objects in your library RSELABXX.
To view and access an object:
You will see all objects in this library appear in the Remote Systems view. For each object you can right-click and select from a number of actions. The list of actions depends on the object selected and whether you selected one or multiple objects. For example, for a source file the pop-up menu has an action to create a new member within the selected file.
Now you can see and access the members in these two source files. For each member you can right-click and select from a number of actions. The exact list of actions depends on whether the member is a data file or source file and whether you select one or multiple members. For a COBOL source member, the pop-up menu actions include:
Before you go ahead and work with these members, let's see the members in the iSeries Table view as well because that is similar to the view you are used to from PDM. You use this view to display a list of items, for example, members or objects, in a table format similar to PDM. You can also perform actions against these items such as editing and compiling.
The iSeries Table view takes the selected object in the Remote Systems view
as input, and displays the contents in the table. For source physical
files, this step displays the members inside, their names, types, attributes,
text descriptions, and status.
The top of the iSeries Table view contains a lock icon
that controls the correlation between the Remote Systems view and the iSeries
Table view. If the lock is disabled then whenever you click an object
or library in the Remote Systems view, the associated contents of that item
automatically populate the iSeries Table view. If the lock is enabled
then when you click on various items in the Remote Systems view, this view
does not change the content of the iSeries Table view. To enable or
disable the lock, you can click it once to change its state. You can
click on the columns heading to sort the view by column.
This means now the table will automatically be updated when a different object is selected in the Remote Systems view. This is a shortcut to open the pop-up menu for an object in the Remote Systems view and to select Show in Table.
You can also modify which specific columns you want to see in the iSeries Table view.
The Preferences Window opens.
Now, let's update the iSeries Table view.
Now you'll see the extra column that you've added.
You can also sort the objects in the iSeries Table view by column.
The table shows the members in QCBLLESRC.
Now you are ready to use the Remote Systems LPEX Editor to edit the member MSTDSP found in QDDSSRC.
You can do this in the Remote Systems view or in the iSeries Table view.
The Remote Systems LPEX Editor opens. It is built right into the workbench, with rich editing functions and is iSeries aware! It is a superset of SEU! The syntax checker is ported from SEU, and the reference manuals are built-in and F1 cursor sensitive.
You have viewed and accessed objects in your library and now you are ready to begin Exercise 2.4: Opening a second source member.
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