WDSCi troubleshooting

Tips on troubleshooting WDSCi:

First, search the archives

How do I clear the cache?

There are two caches to be cleared:

• Window > Preferences > Remote Systems > File Cache > Clear-"Clear cached files"

• Window > Preferences > Remote Systems > iSeries > Cache > Clear-"clear the current cache"

• NOTE! You must restart your workspace immediately after clearing the cache!

Where is my workspace stored?

File > Switch workspace

I'm getting a 'Workspace in use' error

• Use Windows Explorer and drill down into your workspace.
• There's a directory called .metadata
• Inside that directory is a file called .lock
• Delete that file and restart WDSC.
• If you can't delete that file, you may have some bits of Eclipse still running.
• Either reboot your PC or use the Windows task manager to kill eclipse.exe
• You may also have to kill the Java Virtual Machine, too. It'll be called javaw.exe. *Unfortunately, you'll probably have more than one. I'd kill the one using the most memory, but that's no guarantee to be the right one, so watch out!
• In this case a reboot is a safer mechanism.

Workspace crashes error

• Try deleting the .registry file
• Shut down WDSCi.
• Delete the .registry file.
• When WDSCi restarts it should rebuild the file.

You should do a back up save of the workspace first.

• If this does not fix the problem you most likely need to do a reinstall.

I have a custom compile command. How do I get the error list back into WDSC?

Technote 1231854 from ibm.com