Limitation: When Rational® Developer
for System z® and Rational Developer for Power Systems™ are installed
at the same time, there are Editor conflicts.
When you install Rational Developer
for System z and Rational Developer for Power Systems in a shell
sharing environment and you launch Rational Developer
for System z, both Rational Developer for System z and Rational Developer for Power Systems links are created. This
includes links to the Rational Developer
for System z and Rational Developer for Power Systems editors.
During the install, the Rational Developer
for Power Systems editors
are set as the default. This causes problems for some of the Rational Developer for System z Debug functions such
as debug actions being enabled properly and adding breakpoints.
Workaround: When using Rational Developer
for System z, set the Rational Developer for System z editors as the default.
Steps to change the default C/C++ editor:
- From the main menu, select Window > Preferences.
- Select General > Editors > File
Associations node on the left.
- In the File Types list, select the file
type that you are interested in (For example, *.c, *.h, *.cpp, and
*.hpp to change association for C++ files).
- In the Associated editors list, select
the editor that should be used to open files of that type.
- Select
to choose the Rational Developer
for Power Systems C/C++
editor.
- Select

to choose
the Rational Developer
for System z C/C++ editor.
- Click the Default button to make this the
default editor to be used for this file type.
- Click OK on the preference page to save
changes.
Steps to change the default COBOL editor:
- From the main menu, select Window > Preferences.
- Select General > Editors > File
Associations node on the left.
- In the File Types list, select the file
type that you are interested in (For example, *.c, *.h, *.cpp, and
*.hpp to change association for C++ files).
- In the Associated editors list, select
the editor that should be used to open files of that type.
- Select Remote Systems LPEX Editor to choose
the Rational Developer
for Power Systems COBOL
editor.
- Select System z LPEX Editor to choose the Rational Developer for System z COBOL editor.
Note: Rational Developer
for System z also has the COBOL
Editor.
- Click the Default button to make this the
default editor to be used for this file type.
- Click OK on the preference page to save
changes.