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Setting up your environment

In this first lesson, you will open the IBM Data Design perspective and view data preferences. The IBM Data Design perspective in the workbench is where you do all of your work in this tutorial.
Before you begin
Before you begin the tutorial, perform the following steps:
The IBM Data Design perspective consists of several default views, including: As with any perspective in the workbench, you can customize the IBM Data Design perspective to include other views or exclude these or other default views. In this tutorial you will use the IBM Data Design perspective default views.

To set up your environment:

  1. Open the IBM Data Design perspective.
    1. Click Window > Open Perspective > Other from the main menu bar.
    2. In the window that opens, select IBM Data Design, then click OK. If you do not see IBM Data Design in the list, click Show all. The IBM Data Design perspective opens with the default views. If you did not previously create any data projects, the Data Project Explorer is blank. Because you set up the sample GSDB database, the Data Source Explorer contains a connection to database. If you set up aliases for any DB2 databases, they are also displayed.
    3. Expand the Database Connections folder to see database connections.
      Screen capture showing the Data Source Explorer
  2. View data preferences. You can customize the workbench settings for data design and 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. Expand the General node, and click Capabilities. The Capabilities preference page opens. You can use this page to simplify the product interface by enabling or disabling product components so that only the perspectives, views, and menu actions that you are interested in are available. By default, the Data capabilities are enabled. If you are not interested in other capabilities, you can clear the check boxes next to those capabilities to disable views and menu actions that are associated with them.
    3. Click Advanced, and verify that Data and the capabilities within the Data section are checked, then click OK to close the window.
      Screen capture showing Preferences page, as described.
    4. In the Preferences window, expand the Data Management node to see the available options. Many preferences pages are associated with data design and development. View the pages under the Data Management node to see available options. In this tutorial, you do not need to modify any preferences. In later exercises, you will use a data diagram. Use the pages under the Diagram node to specify the default notation for new data diagrams. In this tutorial, keep the default notation, which is Information Engineering (IE) notation.
    5. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
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