22.3 A description of the system browser

The system browser provides an intuitive way to examine systems which have been loaded into the environment, together with their members. You can use it to perform system-wide actions, thereby creating plans which you can review before executing. The system browser has a total of four views available:

• The graph view is used to display a graph of all the requested systems defined in the image, together with their members.
• The text view lists the systems defined in the image together with the members of the current system.
• The preview view provides a powerful way of generating and executing systems plans.
• The output view is used to display any output messages which have been created by the system browser as a result of executing plans.

To create a system browser, choose Tools > System Browser from the podium. Alternatively, choose File > Browse Parent System from any appropriate tool in the environment or execute Alt+X Browse System in an editor, to display the parent system for the selected or current file in the system browser. See Operating on files for details.