Configuring filter pools

About this task

If you have been using the Remote System Explorer for some time, your workspace might contain too many filters to navigate easily. Or, you might just want to keep groups of filters separate if, for example, you need to represent two distinct environments in the Remote System Explorer, regardless of how many filters you have. In either case, you can group filters into filter pools.

All filters live in filter pools, but these filter pools remain hidden unless you choose to manage them explicitly. By default, the Remote System Explorer manages all of your filters for you, and they all appear together in all connections. When you create filter pools, however, that filter pool is distinct to that pool, and will not appear in any other connections by default. You need to explicitly add a reference to that new pool from other connections to use these filters. (See the related links for more information about filter pools.)

To illustrate the use of filter pools,

Procedure

  1. Click the menu button on the toolbar for the Remote Systems view, and select Show Filter Pools.
  2. Expand Objects (or IFS Files, or Files for Linux or AIX®), and you can now see your filters listed under Profile name Filter Pool.
  3. Right-click Objects and select New > Filter Pool.
  4. Enter a pool name and click Finish. (You do not need to change your profile selection.) Your new filter pool displays underneath your connection.
  5. Right-click your new filter pool and select New > Filter.
  6. Complete the filter wizard as you normally would (see related tasks). When you are finished, you can see your new filters displayed in the Remote Systems view.

Results

If you no longer want to work with filter pools, click the menu button on the toolbar for the Remote Systems view, and select Show Filter Pools again to clear the check mark. When you do this, any new filters you created with the filter pool are added to your previous set of filters.

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