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The Application Window

CA IDMS Visual DBA displays in its own application window. This main window is referred to as the workspace environment and is the primary work area for your tasks. Initially, it has two subwindows:

• The Nodes window, by default located on the left is used to display and manage the nodes or ODBC data sources. There is only one Nodes window per CA IDMS Visual DBA instance. It is a movable window. It can be made floating, it can be docked and auto-hiding. Because it is only used for connection management, it usually is most efficient to dock it to the right side and set it to auto-hiding. This setup gives the most workspace to the DOM window(s). The position and visibility attributes of the Nodes window are preserved after exiting CA IDMS Visual DBA.
• The right subwindow initially appears empty. However, once you connect to a CA IDMS system, the Database Object Manager (DOM) window appears with dictionary and runtime objects at the root level.

Note: If instead of the Dom tree in the DOM window a dialog box appears with the message "Failed to create empty document", the IDMS CV has Enhanced Object Security enabled and the user connected to the CA IDMS system has not been assigned a profile or the profile does not contain any valid root nodes. Review and correct the configuration of the mainframe component of CA IDMS Visual DBA.

The Workspace Environment window includes a menu bar and several toolbars. These are documented in detail in online help. The Workspace toolbar and the Nodes window toolbar are described in the following brief: