Key features of File-AID for IMS/CICS and File-AID for IMS/DC

File-AID for IMS/CICS and File-AID for IMS/DC contain the following features:

  • Provide the capability to browse and edit IMS databases while they are online in IMS or CICS. Data is viewed and edited using full-screen, ISPF-like panels. Changing a data field in a segment is done by typing over the field value.
  • Require a minimal amount of training. File-AID for IMS is a menu-driven, online system that is modeled after ISPF.
  • Use existing DBDs to define a database structure. Also use existing COBOL or PL/I segment layouts as templates over the data.
  • Provide easily understood commands such as CHILD, TWIN, NEXT, PARENT, and ROOT that are used to navigate through a database.
  • Provide the capability to insert, delete, and repeat segments and their substructures.
  • Support HDAM, HIDAM, HISAM, HSAM, DEDB, MSDB, and logically related databases, including databases with secondary indexes. DEDB databases are supported even if some areas are down.
  • Provide an optional audit trail of all segments updated, inserted, repeated, and deleted during an edit session.
  • Provide an optional data integrity check to verify that a concurrent update did not occur while a segment was being updated.

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