The File Manager Integration component of IBM® Rational® Developer
for System z® has been restructured
and enhanced in version 7.6 for increased functionality. File Manager
Integration contributes a comprehensive set of tools for working with
sequential data sets, PDS members, and VSAM and QSAM clusters based
on data structures stored within a COBOL copybook, PL/I INCLUDE, or
an IBM File Manager template.
New features
- An advanced copy wizard has been added to help with performing
advanced copying procedures.
- Allocating data sets has been improved to now allow template association
and user modification.
- The create template wizard has been added to help create new simple,
advanced, and dynamic templates.
Enhancements in the formatted data editor
- Improved layout.
- Support to undo and redo actions that were performed while editing
a data set.
- Enhanced find and replace functionality.
- Support for templates that contain hold columns.
- Support for templates that contain selected fields.
- Support for using the save as command on data that is being viewed
or edited within the Formatted Data Editor.
- Support for applying a template during an edit session when a
template was not previously applied.
Enhancements in the template editor
- Improved layout.
- Scrambling options have been included to help create test data
from existing production data.
- Support for editing the offset of a record type.
- Support for defining selected fields in a template.
- Support for defining hold fields in a template.
- Support for displaying alphanumeric field definitions in long
hexadecimal.
- Enhanced by-field criteria building wizard.