You must open a database in order to access the maps it contains.
Select Open Database from the File menu, or (from 4.622) press Ctrl+B. The Open Database dialog appears.

In the list box, double-click the database you want to open. You can have several databases open at once.
An error message stating that 600 map structures are not supported means that you are trying to open a database whose mapsets have not been converted for use with the new Map Editor: To upgrade the mapsets, run the FIXDB23 program against the database, as described in the DP4 4.600 Release Notes.