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Setting up your environment

In this first exercise, you will open the Data perspective and view data preferences. The Data perspective in the workbench is where you do all of your work in this tutorial.
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.

In this tutorial you will use the Data perspective 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. If you do not see Data in the list, click Show all.
    The Data perspective opens with the default views. If you have not previously created any data projects, the Data Project Explorer is blank. In a later lesson, you will create a data development project that will be displayed in the Data Project Explorer. If you have the DB2® SAMPLE database or any other DB2 aliases set up, you should see an offline connection to them in the Data Source Explorer. In a later lesson, you will set up a connection to the SAMPLE database, so for now just notice where the database connections are displayed in the Data Source Explorer.
    Screen capture showing the Data Source Explorer as described in the last steps.
  2. View data preferences. You can customize the workbench settings for database development in the Preferences window. In this tutorial, you will view preferences but you will not change them.
    1. Click Window > Preferences from the main menu bar.
    2. Back in the list of preferences pages, expand the Data Management node, then click Diagram. On the Diagram Preferences page, you can specify which type of diagram notation that you want to use for new data diagrams. In this case, keep the default, which is Information Engineering (IE) notation. In a later exercise, you will modify the settings for an individual diagram by using the Properties view.
      Screen capture showing the Diagram Preferences page, as described.
    3. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
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