Limitations of File Manager® Plug-in

In addition to any restrictions or limitations imposed by File Manager®, the File Manager® plug-in has the following limitations and restrictions.

Editor Limitations are documented in the editor section.

Member names

Only member names that meet the following requirements are supported:

Members with names which do not meet all these requirements may be visible in the File Manager® plug-in, but are not supported for editing, browsing, used as a template, or for use with any of the utility functions

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HFS File names

File names for which one or more of the following apply are explicitly not supported:

CICS Resources

CICS Systems with a colon in their name are not supported. Similarly, CICS resources which are on a CICS System with a colon in its name are not supported.

DB2 Subsystems

If there are multiple subsystems or groups with the same subsystem identifier, only one will be shown, and the one which is connected to will be determined by DB2.

Specifically, if there is a subsystem with the same identifier as a group, then the group will take priority. Otherwise, one of the two will randomly be displayed. In both cases, it is up to DB2 to determine which will be connected to, as only the subsystem identifier is used when connecting to DB2.

DB2 Object Locations

Use of DB2's location functionality is not supported. To work with a specific DB2 location, make that location available as a DB2 subsystem. Consult the File Manager® for z/OS® documentation for information on how to do this.

It is not possible to copy from one DB2 subsystem to another.

DB2 Object Owners and Names

DB2 objects with a non-standard SQL identifier for owner and/or name may cause unexpected behaviour, and may not be recognised as valid input. To be considered a Standard SQL identifier, the following must be true: Trailing spaces in owner & name are explicitly not supported.

DB2 XML Tables

Manipulating DB2 XML tables is not supported, edit the base table instead.

Templates

Only templates which are members of PDS or Library data sets are supported.

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