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Most of functionality provided by IBM® File Manager® plug-in for Eclipse is accessible from the Systems Information view. After installing the plug-in, you can show this view in any perspective.

After you have created a connection to a File Manager® server, you can do the following:

Invoke Actions

Most actions in the Systems Information view are accessible via the pop-up menu. The pop-up menu is accessible by either right clicking an item in the view or by pressing the Shift + F10 keys. Depending on the selection in the view, a menu with a set of available actions will be shown.

Sample pop-up menu in Systems Information view
Pop-up menu

A summary of available actions is listed below:

Action Description
Add Query Adds a new query to locate z/OS or z/OS subsystem resources
Allocate Wizard Invokes File Manager® wizard to allocate various data sets or a HFS file
Close Connections Closes all connections to the selected system
Compare Wizard Invokes File Manager® compare or DB2 compare wizard
Copy to Clipboard Copies the full names of currently selected item(s) in the Systems Information view
Copy Wizard Invokes File Manager® copy or DB2 copy wizard to copy resources or data
Create Data Wizard Invokes File Manager® create or DB2 create wizard to populate resources with data
Create Member Shows a dialog to create a member in PDS or Library data set
Create Template Wizard Invokes File Manager® Template creation wizard to create a new template
DB2 Command Console Opens a DB2 Command Console in the Console view for the selected system (or DB2 subsystem)
DB2 SQL Console Opens a DB2 SQL Console in the Console view for the selected system (or DB2 subsystem)
Delete Deletes the selected resource on the z/OS system
Display Host Version Displays the host version and PTF information
Export to Desktop Exports the selected resource to an XML or CSV file on your desktop.
Go Into Shows the children of the selected tree component as the top level items in the tree. (Click the Back button on the Systems Information view's toolbar to undo this.)
Modify Modifies existing queries and systems using the relevant dialogs
Export Wizard Invokes File Manager® DB2 export wizard to export DB2 data to a data set
Formatted Editor Invokes File Manager® Formatted Editor Options dialog to start a view or edit session of the selected resource
Import Wizard Invokes File Manager® DB2 import wizard to populate DB2 resources with data from a data set
Template Editor Invokes File Manager® Template Editor for the currently selected resource
Print Wizard Invokes File Manager® print or DB2 print wizard to print contents of resources
Properties Opens Eclipse's Properties view which displays Properties of a selected item. For example, the File Manager® plug-in uses the Properties view to display properties of z/OS resources and queries (and allows some query properties to be modified directly from the view).
Refresh Refreshes the currently selected item in the view. For example, if you select a data set query and choose refresh from the menu, the latest data set information will be retrieved from the host. If you are refreshing an item which has children which can be refreshed, those children will be refreshed as well.
Remove Removes the selected item from the view
Update Login Details Updates the user & password details for the selected system
Update Template Wizard Invokes File Manager® Template update wizard to update an existing template
View Error(s) Show any errors associated with the currently selected item in the view. For example, this option becomes available when authentication with the server fails; see Problem Diagnostics.
View Load Module wizard Invokes File Manager® View Load Module wizard

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Add Queries

You can use queries to search for a specific resource on the mainframe system. For performance reasons, it is recommended to avoid creating very generic filters and queries (e.g. avoid ** to fetch all data sets); instead it is recommended to create more specific queries.

Using the Add/Edit Data Set Query dialog, you can specify queries to match data sets based on data set name patterns:

Furthermore, you can filter data sets by their type. Note that when a VSAM data set type is selected, its associated INDEX or DATA component data sets will also be shown.

Using the Add/Edit Message Queue Query dialog, you can create a query to locate WebSphere® MQ queues for the specified WebSphere® MQ manager at the specified system. A pattern can be specified for the queue name but not for the WebSphere® MQ manager. The supported wildcards are:

Using the Add/Edit USS File Query dialog, you can create a query to locate Unix System Services Hierarchical File System files on a specified system. The query can show all the files in a particular directory, or a subset of the files in it by specifying a type filter (note while all file types are collectively referred to as HFS Files or USS Files, the type File represents a standard editable file) or by specifying wildcards. Note that /u/keeper*/ or /%/keeper/ are not a valid queries, because File Manager® will not find files from multiple different directories (and paths including % or * characters are not supported).

The supported wildcards are:

Using the Add/Edit CICS Resource Query dialog, you can create queries to locate CICS File, Transient Data Queue, or Temporary Storage Queue resources (collectively, "CICS Resources") on a particular CICS System on a particular system. A pattern can be specified for the resource name but not for the CICS System (which is referred to by the CICS Application ID).

The supported wildcards are:

Using the Add/Edit DB2 Object Query dialog, you can create queries to locate DB2 tables or databases on a particular DB2 Subsystem on a particular system. A pattern can be specified for the object name, owner (also known as creator), and database (when querying for tables)but not for the DB2 Subsystem. Specifing an invalid DB2 subsystem will cause the query to fail.

The supported wildcards are:

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