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:
- Name consists of alphanumeric characters (excluding lower case
letters) and/or the following special characters -!#$&_=+{}@
- Name length is 1 to 8 characters
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:
- Name contains a space
- Name contains an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%)
- Name contains a quotation mark ("), ampersand (&), less-than sign (<),
greater-than sign (>) or a null character
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:
- the identifier composed of alphanumerics plus the three national characters and underscore
- the identifier does not start with a number
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.