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Setting up your environment

In this first exercise, you will open the Data perspective, where all the work for this tutorial will be done.
The Data perspective consists of several default views, including: As with any perspective in the workbench, you can customize the Data perspective to include other views or exclude these or other default views.

If you are new to the Eclipse workbench, refer to the workbench tutorial for detailed information about how to set up and use Eclipse views and perspectives.

To set up your environment:

  1. Open the Data perspective.
    1. Click Window > Open Perspective > Other from the main menu bar.
    2. In the window that opens, select Data, then click OK.
    The Data perspective opens with the default views. If you have not previously created any data projects, the Data Project Explorer is blank. If you have set up the DB2® SAMPLE database, you should see an offline connection to it in the Data Source Explorer. Otherwise, just notice where the Data Source Explorer and Data Project Explorer is in the Data perspective.
  2. View the data preference and ensure they are correct for your current database development project. There many preferences you can set to customize the workbench setting for database development in Rational® Developer for System z®. This tutorial will guide you through how to change these preferences; however, for the purposes of this tutorial you will not need to make any changes to the default.
    1. Click Window > Preferences from the main menu bar.
    2. Expand the General node and view the preferences pages in this node. You can use these pages to set preferences for appearance, editors, and other general settings. For now, keep the defaults.
    3. Back in the list of preferences pages, expand the following Data Management > SQL Development > Stored Procedures and User Defined Functions node to see the available options. For each type of routine, you set deploy and debug preferences on these pages. In this tutorial, you do not need to modify any preferences.
    4. Back in the list of preferences pages, expand the Run/Debug node, then expand Routine Debugger > DB2 > SQL and JAVA to see the available options for stored procedure debug. In a later exercise, you will modify these preferences. For now, keep the defaults.
    5. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
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