Creating and Editing Data

The IMS Database Editor enables you to edit segment data and field data from various places in the IDE. While editing either segment or field data, you can:

Cut or copy data to the clipboard and paste in the data somewhere else.
Toggle between Insert and Overtype mode by pressing Insert.
Initialize a field that has invalid data, as long as the field is not a key field. An alphanumeric field is initialized to spaces. A numeric field is initialized to zeros.

Editing Area	Description
Segment data	Displays the contents of the segment buffer. The segment buffer contains character and hexadecimal representations of binary segment data for the current segment occurrence.
Layout view	After applying a segment layout file, you can edit a field in the Value column.
Field data	For formatted data, you can edit character and hexadecimal representations of binary data for the field that is selected in the Layout view.