These topics provide information needed to plan for, customize, maintain, and diagnose problems with IBM® File Manager for z/OS®.
This section outlines how you can protect IMS™ resources that can be accessed through FM/IMS functions.
This topic describes how FM/IMS operates when IMS™ is configured to manage the runtime application control blocks (ACBs).
FM/IMS uses templates to format database segments into their individual fields. One template is required for each database.
You can customize FM/IMS for national languages other than English.
IBM File Manager for z/OS is a host component that supports various interfaces such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDEs.
File Manager plug-in for Eclipse, when used with an Eclipse-based platform such as IBM® Explorer for z/OS® or IBM Developer for z/OS, provides easy access through a graphical user interface (GUI) on the workstation to IBM File Manager for z/OS.
FM/IMS offers two modes of accessing IMS™ databases - DLI mode and BMP mode.