Overview of File Manager® IMS editor display mode

We refer to different views of data as the display mode. File Manager® IMS editor provides three different display modes for data stored in various resources:

  1. Formatted/Table mode: Displays data in a table, and each column represents a field within a layout of a template or copybook.
  2. Character mode: Displays data as text.
  3. Single mode: Displays data about the currently selected record in the editor, either in Formatted or Character mode.

Formatted/Table mode

Formatted mode for File Manager® IMS displays a table showing table showing the:

By selecting an row of the formatted/character mode the IMS segment data will be displayed in the in the Single mode display.

Formatted/Table mode
Formatted display

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Character mode

Character mode display records in text format with the IMS segment details of the left.. The text displayed is derived from the binary data stored in the specified IMS segment, and interpreted according to the encoding specified when the editor is invoked.

Character mode
Character dislay

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Single mode

Single mode view allows you to edit and view a single IMS segment. The Single mode display is implemented as a view in Eclipse. You can open the view by selecting Window --> Show View --> Other.... Then select Single Mode Editor under File Manager category.

The content of Single mode editor is populated based on the selection in the File Manager® IMS editor. If you have multiple edit sessions opened, then currently active/selected editor's record will be shown in the view. Using the view, you can modify the values of currently selected record.

Single Mode Display
Single Mode Image

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