IMS™ Subsystem Specification panel

The IMS Subsystem Specification panel is displayed when the Specify subsystem option is selected on the View Update Utility panel or Criteria Set Update Utility panel.

When Specify subsystem is selected, the utility bases your views or criteria sets on templates that are dynamically generated from data in an IMS™ catalog or DBD libraries. Templates that are dynamically generated from data in an IMS™ catalog or DBD libraries are called dynamic templates.

On this panel, you specify where you want the utility to get the data from by selecting an IMS subsystem. The subsystem name is stored in the updated views and criteria sets and they are flagged as being based on a dynamic template.

If both the Specify Template data set and Specify subsystem options are selected, the utility only bases the view or criteria set on a dynamically generated template when it is currently based on a dynamic template. When the view or criteria set is based on a static template, the utility bases it on templates that are in the data set you specified in the Template data set name field.

When neither of these options are selected, the utility does the following.
  • When the view or criteria set is based on a dynamic template, the utility bases it on a template that is dynamically generated from data in either the IMS catalog or DBD libraries that the subsystem specified in the view or criteria set uses.
  • When the view or criteria set is based on a static template, the utility bases it on the template whose name is stored in the view or criteria set.

Panel and field definitions

Figure 1. IMS Subsystem Specification panel
 Process   Options   Help
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 FM/IMS                        IMS Subsystem Specification panel 
 
  IMS: 
    Subsystem name  . . IFG1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  F1=Help      F2=Split     F3=Exit      F7=Backward  F8=Forward   F9=Swap 
 F10=Actions  F12=Cancel
Subsystem name
Select an IMS™ subsystem to specify where you want the utility to get the data from. When IMS™ manages ACBs, the utility gets the data from the IMS™ catalog that the selected subsystem uses. When ACBs are managed by your installation, the utility gets the data from the DBD libraries for the selected subsystem.

If you enter either no subsystem name or a subsystem name pattern, the Subsystem Selection panel is displayed. You can select from the list of subsystems displayed on that panel.

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