Enabling tool capabilities
Enable capabilities to limit the functions that are available to the user. You can enable and disable tool capabilities in several ways.
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IBM® Integration Designer supports a range of servers and runtime deployment environments. Tools are grouped into predefined categories called capabilities according to the target runtime that they support. You use capabilities to filter your development environment, so that you see only the tools that you need. In order to access a tool, its capability must be enabled.
You can change capability settings by using these interfaces:- The Getting Started page
- The Preferences settings for capabilities
Using the Getting Started page to change capabilities
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Procedure
- From the Help menu, select .
- In the Getting Started page that opens, the section What environment do you want to use? shows the current capability that is enabled.
- Click the Change Environment button.
- In the Environment Capabilities page, select one or more capabilities and click OK.
Using the Preferences page to change capabilities
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Procedure
- From the menu bar, select .
- In the Preferences window, expand Capabilities. to select
- Click Advanced and expand Integration Designer.
- Select or clear the check boxes of the listed capabilities
to enable or disable them. Click OK. To get some description (in the Description container) for a listed capability, click the capability.
- Click Apply to update the changes.
- Click OK to close the Preferences.