Step 1 Starting the LANSA Development Environment

Step 1. Starting the LANSA Development Environment

In this step you will locate the LANSA folder and start LANSA.

1.  The Visual LANSA Installation creates a LANSA desktop folder a shown:

     If you open the Documentation folder, you can directly access the LANSA online documentation. Help (also referred to as the online guide) can also be accessed from within the Visual LANSA IDE. The IDE includes extensive context sensitive help links.

     If you open the Setting and Administration folder, you will see a group of program icons used by LANSA Administrators to configure the LANSA environment:

2.  Start LANSA using the Development Environment icon in the LANSA folder

or

via the Development Environment icon in the Windows Start Menu.

3.  Double-click on the  icon to start LANSA. The Visual LANSA Logon dialog will open:

     Logon using the User ID, Password, Partition and Task ID provided by your course instructor.

     If you are using a trial, stand alone installation, logon using:

     Userid: PCXUSER, Password: PCXUSER, Partition: DEM and Task ID: PCXTASK.

     The LANSA Editor will open. The appearance of the editor will depend upon the type of installation as well as the editor settings

     Note: Visual LANSA is shipped configured with a grey color scheme. You will find most of the images included in this tutorial use a blue color scheme. You will learn about changing the appearance of the IDE and editors in this tutorial.