Exercise 1.2: Opening the Remote System Explorer perspective

Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 1.1: Starting the product.

In these steps you will open the Remote System Explorer perspective.

  1. Check for the name of the perspective.
    RSE

    A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. Within the window, each perspective shares the same set of editors. Each perspective provides a set of capabilities aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or working with specific types of resources. For example, the Java(TM) perspective combines views that you would commonly use while editing Java source files, while the Debug perspective contains views that you would use while debugging a program. Perspectives contain views and editors and control what appears in certain menus and tool bars.

    If you see a different perspective, not the Remote System Explorer open in the workbench or no perspective:

  2. Click Window > Open Perspective > Remote System Explorer from the workbench menu.
    Open RSE Perspective

    The Remote System Explorer perspective opens.

    You work in the Remote System Explorer perspective in the workbench. This perspective is for an iSeries programmer to display the connections that you have already configured, create a new connection, connect to and disconnect from the connections that you have defined, work with iSeries files, commands, jobs, and integrated file system files.

    This perspective will be active when you start the product with a new workspace. If you had used the workspace before then, the workbench would come up with the perspective that you last opened. You will learn more about the Remote System Explorer perspective in the coming exercises as this is where you launch the iSeries programmer tools and use the views from the workbench.

Now you are ready to review your knowledge of this module by taking the quiz. You can also apply what you have learned in this module by completing the practice tasks detailed in More practice.

Quiz

  1. A workspace:
    1. Aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openness by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workbench resources.
    2. Defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window.
    3. Refers to the desktop development environment.
    4. Specifies where your projects and other resources such as folders, subfolders and files that you are developing in the workbench will reside.
  2. A workbench:
    1. Aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openness by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workbench resources.
    2. Defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window.
    3. Refers to the desktop development environment.
    4. Specifies where your projects and other resources such as folders, subfolders and files that you are developing in the workbench will reside.
    5. A and C
  3. A perspective:
    1. Aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openness by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workbench resources.
    2. Defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window.
    3. Refers to the desktop development environment.
    4. Specifies where your projects and other resources such as folders, subfolders and files that you are developing in the workbench will reside.
  4. Match the perspective with its correct definition:
    1. Combines tools and views that you would commonly use while editing Java source files
    2. Contains tools and views that you would use while debugging programs
    3. Contains tools and views that you would use while developing Web applications
    4. Contains tools and views that you would use while maintaining iSeries applications.
    1. Java perspective
    2. Web perspective
    3. Remote System Explorer perspective
    4. Debug perspective
  5. In the Remote System Explorer perspective you can:
    1. Display configured connections
    2. Create a new connection
    3. Connect and disconnect defined connections
    4. Work with iSeries files, commands, jobs, IFS files
    5. All of the above

More practice

Given your experience in opening the Remote Systems Explorer perspective, now open the Web perspective. See the list of tools and views available to the Web developer. Next open the Java perspective. See the list of tools and views available to the Java developer. Now since you are supposedly in the Java perspective, open the Web perspective. Be careful not to open another Web perspective.

Tip: Look in the workbench top-right frame for the Web perspective icon. Now close both the Java perspective and the Web perspective.

Module recap

You have completed Module 1. Starting the product and the Remote System Explorer. You have learned how to:

Now that you have started the product and have opened the Remote System Explorer perspective, you can move on to getting connected to an iSeries system. Continue to Module 2. Configuring a connection to an iSeries system and connecting to an iSeries.