Overview of File Manager® IMS editor actions

In addition to the basic edit functionality, the File Manager® editor provides a set of actions to improve productivity. These actions are available in the File Manager® menu toolbar, as toolbar items, or directly from the editor's pop-up menu.

The toolbar menu and toolbar items
The File Manager® plug-in editor pop-up menu

Follow the links for more detailed explanations of the actions.

Database Position icon Database Position
Delete icon Delete Records
Select All
Copy to clipboard
Find/Replace
Hex on/off
Page Down
Page Up
Save Records
Show Options
Switch Mode
Validate Records

Database Position icon Database Position

This action allows the user to position on an IMS segment within the IMS database.

The Database position is specified using the Database Positioning dialog which is shown in the picture below. On this dialog, select the segment and its parents in the hierarchy that you wish to position on, fill in the Segment key values and File Manager® IMS will position on the IMS segment.

Database Positioning dialog

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Copy to clipboard

This action copies the currently selected records in the editor to a clipboard. The copied records are available for pasting into a desired application like a spreadsheet or a notepad. Note that excluded and shadow lines, are not copied by this action.

This action is equivalent to CTRL + C key combination.

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Select All

This action selects all the rows in a table and is equivalent to doing CTRL + A key combination.

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Delete icon Delete Records

This action deletes the currently selected records in the editor. A Delete all records checkbox provides the option of deleting the entire contents of the resource.

Once records are deleted, they are removed from the editor for display. However, the records are not deleted from the original source unless a Save Records is performed explicitly.

The delete confirmation dialog allows you to specify an option to delete all records (see below). If you try to execute delete action without a valid selection in the editor, then this option is selected by default.

Delete Records options dialog

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Find/Replace

This action enables you to search for a specific string literal or hex value pattern within the currently edited IMS database. Furthermore, you can issue a replace command which replaces the occurrences of searched patterns with the specified replacement pattern. Find/Replace options are specified using Find/Replace dialog which is shown in the picture below.

Find/Replace dialog