Describes the IMS database features available from an
Enterprise Developer IMS project.
- IMSDBU Functions
- IMS support in
Enterprise Developer provides a database utility tool, IMSDBU, that you can access from your IMS project. You can perform the following IMSDBU
functions from the
Enterprise Developer IDE:
- Load
- Initializes a database and loads it from an input data file.
- Unload
- Writes database segment data to a sequential output file.
- Zeroload
- Create database data files and prime them for use.
- Add
- Add to or refresh segments in a database from an input data file.
Several additional IMSDBU functions are available from the command line and from the JCL interface. See
mfims imsdbu Command and
IMSDBU JCL Interface for more information.
- IMS Database Editor
- You can also access the IMS Database Editor from your
Enterprise Developer project. The IMS Database Editor provides a graphical interface for viewing and manipulating data in an IMS database.