Key features of File-AID for IMS/ISPF

File-AID for IMS/ISPF contains the following:

  • Provides the capability to browse and edit IMS databases. Data is viewed and edited with full-screen ISPF panels. Changing a data field in a segment is done by typing over the field value.
  • Includes powerful, easy-to-use extract and load capabilities. Segments can be selected for extraction using selection criteria based on segment counts, specific values in individual fields, and/or exclusion of related databases. During extract, logically related and application related database segments are automatically extracted.
  • Runs under and is modeled after ISPF. File-AID for IMS/ISPF is a menu-driven interactive system that requires minimal training.
  • Uses existing DBDs to define a database structure. Also uses existing COBOL or PL/I segment layouts as templates over the data.

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  • Provides easily understood commands such as CHILD, TWIN, NEXT, PARENT, and ROOT that enable you to navigate through a database.
  • Provides the capability to insert, delete, and repeat segments and their substructures. An optional audit trail of all database updates performed during an edit session can be generated.
  • Supports HDAM, HIDAM, HISAM, HSAM, DEDB, MSDB, and logically related databases, including databases with secondary indexes.
  • Provides the capability to initialize a database and all its related databases.
  • Provides the capability to “disguise” the extracted data for greater data security, including applying any Dynamic Privacy Rules defined using the BMC AMI DevX Data Studio's Data Privacy plugin of the BMC AMI DevX Workbench for Eclipse.
  • Supports integration with COPE defined environments for File-AID for IMS/ISPF options BROWSE, EDIT, EXTRACT, LOAD, and FLEX, as well as the Workbench for Eclipse File-AID Data Editor for both Static and Dynamic PSBs.

 

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