Profiles, Connections, and Filters

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This is what profiles were designed for.

  • So one person could setup connections, filters, filter pools, user defined actions, and custom compile commands for a team and then share that with everyone else.


  • When you create connections, filters, filter pools, user defined actions and customized compile commands they are stored in a project inside of the WDSC workspace called RemoteSystemsConnections.
  • All of these things are also grouped by "profiles" (which are not the same thing as i5/OS user profiles).
  • Ultimately this information is stored in directories and xml files on the local hard disk. *This information is also shown in the Team view of the RSE.
  • The Team View shows up in the same area as the main Remote Systems view (click on the Team tab to switch to the Team view).
  • You can create multiple profiles and create connections, filters, etc.. under each one.
  • You can then make profiles active / inactive via the pop-up menus in the team view.
  • When a profile is active the associated connections, filters, etc... show up in the Remote Systems view.
  • When a profile is inactive then they don't show up (this is a handy way of keeping the Remote Systems view uncluttered if you start using multiple connections.)


  • A profile is the only level that connections, user defined actions, filters, etc... should be copied between workspaces.
  • If you want to copy a profile from one workspace to the other, then you just rename the folder under the RemoteSystemsConnections project that represents the profile.
  • For example, say you want to copy profile "DEVELOPER" from workspaceA to workspaceB:
WARNING:  first make sure that workspaceB doesn't already contain a profile named "DEVELOPER"
if it does, then rename it from the Team view.
  1. Using Windows Explorer, copy the folder workspaceA\RemoteSystemsConnections\DEVELOPER to workspaceB\RemoteSystemsConnections\DEVELOPER (just use the right click copy / paste actions, the folder name is case-sensitive!)
  2. In the Team view in worksapceB, right click on the RemoteSystemsConnections project and select "Refresh All', then right click and select "Reload Remote System Explorer".
  • The profile should now show up.
  • You may need to right click on it and make it active for the connections to show up.