Overview of File Manager® editor display mode

We refer to different views of data as the display mode. File Manager® DB2 editor provides two different display modes for DB2 data:

  1. Formatted/Table mode: Displays data in a table, and each column represents a field within a layout of a template or copybook.
  2. Single mode: Displays data about the currently selected record in the editor, in DB2 formatted mode.

Formatted/Table mode

Formatted/Table mode displays records in a table using a specified template or copybook. Each column in the table represents a field within the currently selected layout of the template being applied for the current edit session. This mode allows the user to view and manipulate records in a formatted manner. The typical usage of the formatted display mode is to manipulate binary data of types which are difficult to manipulate by hand.

Formatted/Table mode
Formatted display

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Single mode

Single mode view allows you to edit and view one record at a time in DB2 Single Mode (formatted according to the current template layout). 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® DBeditor. 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.

Using the controls provided at the top of Single mode view, you can navigate to a record before/after the currently selected record. When you are editing a DB2 object, then DB2 Single Mode should be selected in the view.

DB2 Single Mode Display
DB2 Single Mode Image

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