NEW - IMS object filter

The NEW - IMS Object Filter screen shown in the following figure is displayed when you select Option 1, Criteria from the Data Disguise menu.

Use this screen to specify the filter criteria to be used to build the initial object list.

Option 1 - Create and Modify Disguise Criteria

NEW - IMS Object Filter

After entering the information for the new IMS object filter, press ENTER to proceed to the DBD XREF Specification Panel. The DBD XREF Specification panel is where you can see which DBDs match the filter specified and select objects to include in the initial Object List. You may add or update XREF Members as displayed.

IMS Object Filter Area

Use the fields in this area to specify the IMS objects to be included in your initial object list for specifying disguise criteria. All fields in this screen are modifiable, however some fields in the ObjectIn - IMS Object Filter are not.

DBDLIB

Enter one or two DBD load library data set names that contain the DBD describing the database that you want to create disguise criteria for.

When two DBD libraries have been entered, File-AID for IMS searches the first before the second to find the DBD entered. The DBD member entered must describe a Physical data base. Logical and Index DBD are not supported for the extract/disguise function.

The disguise process uses segment layouts to determine which part of a record to disguise. XREF data sets associate layouts with particular segments in a DBD. COBOL or PLI layouts may be used. Enter “COBOL” on the command line if COBOL layouts are to be used. Enter “PLI” on the command line if PLI layouts are to be used.

Segment/Layout XREF dataset

Specify the name of the Segment/Layout XREF data set to be used for the disguise process.

COBOL/PLI layout dataset 1 and 2

Specify the name of the COBOL or PLI Layout data set(s) to be used for the disguise process.

Appl relationship dataset

An application relationship is a File-AID for IMS/ISPF-defined relationship between databases. This FB 80 PDS data set contains the information defining those relationships. Specify the name of the file that contains the referential integrity and application relationship information you want to use for the object list. In the object list, File-AID for IMS identifies related objects based only on the relationship definition found in the relationship file.

DBD XREF Specification Panel

DBD Name

The DBD contains a Physical database description of the database containing the data you wish to disguise.

XREF Member

The XREF allows you to associate COBOL/PLI layouts with the various segment types in a DBD.