Remote System Explorer

The Remote System Explorer is a perspective that provides an interface for managing remote systems with conventions that are similar to ISPF.

As you work in this perspective, you can do these tasks:
  • Define and connect to remote systems
  • Manage your connections
  • View lists of resources
  • Add or modify file mappings
  • Allocate or delete data sets
  • Create or delete members
  • Edit text
  • Submit JCL
  • Submit TSO commands
  • Add or modify job filters
To open the Remote System Explorer, if it is not already open when you start, do these steps:
  1. In the workbench, select Window (on Windows) or IBM Developer for z/OS (on macOS) > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other.
  2. Click Remote System Explorer.
  3. Click OK. The Remote System Explorer opens.
The Remote System Explorer contains the following views:
  • Remote Systems view
  • Properties view
  • Outline view
  • Tasks view
  • z/OS File System Mapping view
  • Team view
  • Remote Scratchpad view
  • Remote Systems Details view
You can close views and open views to customize the perspective.

To close a view, click the X close button in the upper right corner of the view.

If you close a view, you can open the view again. To open one of the default views that were closed:
  1. In the workbench, select Window (on Windows) or IBM Developer for z/OS (on macOS) > Show View. A menu that lists the default views associated with the Remote System Explorer perspective is displayed.
  2. Click the name of the view you want to open.
To open a view that is not a default for the perspective you are working in, you must determine the perspective that contributes the view:
  1. In the workbench, select Window (on Windows) or IBM Developer for z/OS (on macOS) > Show View > Other. Folders are listed for each perspective that is defined in the workbench.
  2. Search through the folders until you find the view you want to open.
  3. Click the name of the view you want to open.
When you have a custom mix of default and other views you would like to use repeatedly based on a perspective, you can save this customized perspective:
  1. In the workbench, select Window (on Windows) or IBM Developer for z/OS (on macOS) > Save Perspective As.
  2. Type a name for your customized perspective in the Name field.
You can now open, close, and reset the customized perspective to the default configuration you defined when you saved the customized perspective.