IMS Database Editor

The IMS Database Editor provides a graphical interface for viewing and manipulating data in an IMS database. Starting from either a DBD or a PSB, you can use the IMS Database Editor to:

View data

• Look at the data for a single segment occurrence
• Browse through segment occurrences to the end of the database
• Switch between viewing the data in ANSI or EBCDIC

Navigate the database

• Make a DL/I call easily - simply click on a toolbar button
• Set up qualified and unqualified SSAs
• Search forwards through the database for a string
• Bookmark a segment occurrence, enabling you to return easily to that segment occurrence later on in the session or in a future editing session
• Jump to a segment occurrence further on in the database, while browsing

Make changes to segment occurrences

• Edit either unformatted or formatted data
• Cut, copy, and paste selected text via the clipboard
• Initialize data at field level or segment level
• Undo your edits at segment level or field level
• When your edits are complete, make the appropriate ISRT, REPL and DLET DL/I calls

The remaining topics in this section assume that you have segment layouts loaded to format your data.