Establishing your own iSeries Data perspective

To access iSeries data on the iSeries server, create your own iSeries Data perspective that combines view and editors from the Remote System Explorer (which is the default perspective) and the Data perspective.

  1. Open the default Data perspective: Click Window > Open Perspective > Other, and select Data.
  2. To add the Remote Systems view to this perspective, click Window > Show View > Other. Select Remote Systems > Remote Systems.
  3. To add the iSeries Table view, click Window > Show View > iSeries > iSeries Table View. Perform a similar operation for iSeries Field Table view. Now you see the new iSeries Data perspective in your workbench, as shown.
  4. To save it, use Window > Save Perspective > iSeries Data or whatever unique name you prefer.
After you create your iSeries Data perspective, you can use it at any time by selecting Window > Open Perspective > Other > iSeries Data. You might still need to switch to other perspectives from time to time, but you can accomplish most iSeries database access tasks in this perspective.