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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 File-AID Data Privacy plugin of the Topaz Workbench1.

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    1: The Topaz Workbench has been replaced by the Topaz Workbench. The Topaz Workbench provides all of the functionality of the previous Topaz Workbench as well as any additional chargeable functionality.

  • Supports integration with COPE defined environments for File-AID for IMS/ISPF options BROWSE, EDIT, EXTRACT, LOAD, and FLEX, as well as the Topaz Workbench File-AID Data Editor for both Static and Dynamic PSBs.

 

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