COPE for IMS DC Programmer’s Guide

The COPE for IMS/DC Programmer’s Guide explains how to edit, generate, compile, and test programs and MFS blocks under ISPF and IMS/DC from within the COPE environment.

This space is for programmers who will be using COPE for IMS/DC for application development or maintenance.

The reader should be familiar with IMS concepts, such as Program Specification Block (PSB) and Database Descriptor (DBD).

This section consists of the following sections:

• Overview of of COPE for IMS/DC Programmer’s Guide provides an overview of COPE , including a brief description of the product’s features and functionality.
• Common-COPE-Facilities describes the common COPE facilities available from all COPE ISPF panels.
• ISPF Facilities for COPE for IMS/DC Programmer’s Guide describes the main functions within COPE, such as Setup, Import, Edit, Data Transform, and Utilities. COPE for IMS/DC features, benefits, and facilities.
• IMS-Facilities describes the IMS facilities of COPE, including commands for programmers and administrators.
• ViaSoft-Smart-Test-Option describes the COPE support for the ViaSoft Smart-Test option.
• HourGlass-Support describes the setup of HourGlass support for users of the COPE Year 2000 Feature.
• IBM-Debug-Tool-Support describes the setup and use of the IBM Debug Tool under COPE and IMS for non-Language Environment Programs.
• SPOC-Feature-of-COPE describes the COPE setup and use of the Single Point Of Control (SPOC) feature of IMS.