Exercise 7.2: Viewing the DDS tree

Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 7.1: Opening a DDS member in the Remote Systems view.

What you are looking at now is basically an explorer view of the DDS. The DDS Tree view on the left-hand side of the Designer displays the DDS source in its file, record, field, and keyword hierarchy. It is a familiar and intuitive way to see the overall structure of the DDS source and to navigate through it quickly. Don't worry if you're not a DDS expert, everything will be explained to you.

The DDS Tree shows groups of records, which represent the screens or reports you are designing, as peers of the file in the tree hierarchy.

In this view, you can create groups, and copy or move keys, keywords, fields, and records. If any DDS object contains an error, the icon representing it displays a red X.

To show file-level keywords and the record SELECT in the DDS tree:

  1. Expand the <Servername>RSELABXX/QDDSSRC(MSTDSP) folder.
  2. Expand the File Keywords folder.
  3. Expand the SELECT record.
  4. Expand the Record Keywords folder.
  5. Expand the EMESS field.
    DDS Tree

    The DDS tree now shows you a summary of the file-level keywords and of the record SELECT.

You have seen the file-level keywords and the record SELECT in the DDS tree and you are ready to begin Exercise 7.3: Selecting the DDS object.