Templates and views
An FM/IMS template is a collection of information that you can use to select and format fields and segments for an IMS database. The template provides FM/IMS with a logical view of the data to be used when editing, browsing, extracting and printing.
Templates are based on COBOL, HLASM, or PL/I copybooks
The FM/IMS component,
File Manager Base component and
FM/Db2 component all use templates.
However, these templates are not interchangeable: you cannot, for example, use a
Base
template for IMS data.