Dragging and dropping items in the Remote System Explorer

About this task

You can drag and drop items within and between many types of servers, such as IBM® i, Linux, UNIX, or Windows, and your local file system. You can drag and drop items within one view, for example, in the Remote Systems view, or between views, for example, from the Remote Systems view to the Object Table view. You can also drag and drop items within an archive, from a non-archived location into an archive, and vice versa. When you drag and drop items, you are copying, rather than moving, the item. If you want to remove an item completely and put it in another location, drag and drop the item first, and then delete the item from the original location.
Restriction: For the Native IBM i file system, the drag and drop action only supports objects, members, and filters; you cannot drag and drop libraries. You also cannot drag and drop IBM i source physical files to another type of server. (You can only drag and drop the files within the IBM i server itself.) For the IBM i Integrated File System, you can drag and drop files freely between servers.

What to do next

To drag and drop items:
  1. In the Remote Systems view, expand your connections until you see the item you want to copy and the location where you want to paste the item. Or, open two views that contain the item and the destination.
  2. Click the item once to select it, hold down the left mouse button while you drag the item to the desired location, and then release the button.
Note: You can drag and drop filters from one subsystem or filter pool to another. However, if you drag a filter into another filter, the target filter is updated with filter strings from the first filter, to combine them. The filters also need to be from the same subsystem type, for example, one Objects subsystem to another Objects subsystem in a different connection.

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