How to enable menu bar after it has been closed in designer

[seell]

How do you enable the menu bar on the datastage designer client after it has been closed accidently?

[chulett]

I'm not really sure what you mean by the 'menu bar' but there are things that can disappear from the Designer that can be tricky to get back.

Sometimes you can go into the Registry Editor and get things back that way, but I've generally found the easiest way is to simply reinstall the client. Missing stuff should come back.

[seell]

The menu bar is the one where the 'FILE VIEW TOOLS HELP' options are situated. It is quite troublesome without this bar in situations where you have opened many windows and would like to close them or to exit from Datastage designer..

Thank you

[chulett]

Heck, I didn't know you could turn that off.

If a right-click up in your menu area doesn't give you the option to re-enable it, go with the "reinstall the client" idea. That should fix it for you, I would think.

[seell]

thank you; would attempt the reinstall option Regards and have a great day!

[arronharden]

You could just (carefully ) delete the registry entries that store the docking bar information - using regedit, remove the entries that match:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ascential Software\DSDesign\DSDesign*

ie DSDesign, DSDesign-Summary, DSDesign-Bar0, DSDesign-Bar1, DSDesign-BarN etc.

- Arron

[seell]

hi
Just an update that the reinstall did not seem to work. Maybe the uninstall does not clean up the registry (??)

Anyway attempted what Arron suggested and it worked....

Thank you for all the help given
Regards

[chulett]

It was worth a shot.

I generally hesitate to tell people to edit the registry as many are not comfortable doing so, but glad it worked out for you. Don't forget to check any of your customizations as they more than likely got 'reset' as well.

[svkworld]

How do you enable the menu bar on the datastage designer client after it has been closed accidently?

I've this same issue. I don't have access to regedit. Is there any other solution? OR does anyone know if there are shortcut keys to all menu items.

Thanks

[chulett]

There are short-cut keys to the menus themselves. Alt activates the menu and then:

File
View
Tools
Help
--
Edit
Diagram
Debug
Window

The only actual shortcuts to menu items I see are:

Ctrl-N: New job
Ctrl-O: Open job
Ctrl-S: Save
Ctrl-A: Save As

Most else requires access to the menus, I do believe, other than some of the F-Keys which do I forget what.

[ray.wurlod]

As Craig notes there are shortcut keys to all menu items, and shortcut keys only to some items of functionality.

If you don't have access to regedt32 I suggest you find someone who does.