Exercise 1.1: Starting the product

To start the product:

  1. Click Start on the task bar of your desktop
  2. Select Programs > IBM(R) Rational > IBM WebSphere(R) Development Studio Client for iSeries V6.0 > WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
    Entry Edition
  3. A dialog will appear. Here you specify the name of the workspace where your projects and other resources such as folders, subfolders and files that you are developing in the workbench will reside.
    Setting Workspace
  4. Use the same name of the workspace that you used for the tutorial named Maintain an ILE application with Remote System Explorer, for example, RSElabXX (where XX is a unique number), or use a different workspace.
  5. Click OK to open the workbench.
    RSE Perspective

You have started the product and set the workspace location and now you are ready to begin Exercise 1.2: Configuring a connection to an iSeries system.