Who should use this document

This document is for:

• Application programmers who need to test and debug programs
• Service support personnel who need to analyze and fix problems
• System administrators and system operators who need to do routine tasks such as moving large amounts of data

FM/IMS is a powerful set of utility functions for editing, browsing, extracting, loading, and maintaining data in IMS databases. It provides powerful functions in one product for use by application programmers and database administrators.

This document assumes that you are familiar with using ISPF and IMS databases.

To use FM/IMS functions in batch jobs, you must already be familiar with JCL.

To use FM/IMS functions in REXX™ procedures, you must already be familiar with the REXX programming language.