Re: workspace rescue -- WDSCI-L

Don Yantzi wrote:

  10. Re: workspace rescue (Don Yantzi)

When you create connections, filters, filter pools, user defined actions

and customized compile commands they are stored in a project inside ofthe

WDSC workspace called RemoteSystemsConnections.  All of these things are
also grouped by "profiles" (which are not the same thing as i5/OS user
profiles).  Ultimately this information is stored in directories and xml
files on the local hard disk.  This information is also shown in the Team
view of the RSE.  The team view shows up in the same area as the main
Remote Systems view (click on the Team tab to switch to the Team view).

You can create multiple profiles and create connections, filters, etc..
under each one. ...

There's some underlying structure that's assumed to be understood bythese comments. It seems to me that having a _clear_ grasp of thatstructure would go a long ways towards eliminating a lot of questionsthat hit this list.

"I don't see that menu option" leads to replies like "You need to openthe xxx perspective" or "You need to follow this navigation path...". Acommon comment in replies is "Clear the cache." Another one is "Create anew Workspace."

But is there anything like a set of ERDs that shows the relationshipsbetween all of the components?


From Don's comment, we can see a bit of a hierarchical relationship:

WDSC workspace contains
  projects, one of which is named
    RemoteSystemsConnections contains
       connections and
       filters and
       filter pools and
       user defined actions and
       customized compile commands (and...)

Hmmm... but aren't "user defined actions" more general than that, i.e.,aren't they something like attributes of different kinds of components?What about custom key-stroke sequences? How many different places canthey be associated with? Can any one of them be associated with multipleareas/components? What components can have them as attributes?

Then there is something called "profiles" but no description of how a'profile' relates except that the above things are somehow containedwithin "profiles" too. (I'm not complaining about Don's post. It simplyhad an good place for me to hook this post on to.)

So, are things diagrammed somewhere? Is there _any_ way to know whatpath to take from "I don't see that menu option" to wherever you need toget to, besides sending a question to this list and you eventually justmemorize? There's LOTS of help in WDSC, but perhaps so much that itisn't clear which bit of help is appropriate. It reminds me offull-blown mainframe PL/1. Every new person seems to have a similar setof difficulties that _might_ be eased by a basic set of diagrams.

Any chance of getting such a thing added to the Enhancements list ifit's not already available?

And how in the world do you "clear the cache" anyway? Where am I today?What day is it? Is this the right list?

No real question... I'm just getting the feeling from watching this listthat something is missing from how it's all presented to the developers,and I'm not sure how it can be straightened out.


Tom Liotta