General Navigation

Most of functionality provided by IBM® File Manager® plug-in for Eclipse is accessible from the Systems Information view. After installing the plug-in, you can show this view in any perspective. We recommend opening the Systems Information view in the Resources perspective.

After you have created a connection to a File Manager® server, you can do the following:

Add queries

You can use filters to search for a specific resource on the mainframe system. For performance reasons, it is recommended to avoid creating very generic filters and queries e.g. ** to fetch all data sets. It is advised to create more specific queries over generic queries.

In this release you can create filters for data sets and IBM® WebSphere® MQ queues. Using the Edit Data Set Query dialog shown below, you can specify queries to match data sets based on data set name patterns:

Furthermore, you can filter data sets by their type. Note that when a VSAM data set type is selected, its associated INDEX or DATA component data sets will also be shown.

Using the Edit Message Queue Query dialog, you can create a query to locate WebSphere® MQ queues for the specified WebSphere® MQ manager at the specified system. A pattern can be specified for the queue name but not for the WebSphere® MQ manager. The supported wildcards are:

The dialog below is a query that will lookup all queues prefixed by FMN in the WebSphere® MQ manager MQ72.

Data Set query
/>Data set query dialog

Message Queue query
MQ query dialog

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Invoke actions

Most actions in the Systems Information view are accessible via the context menu. The context menu is accessible by either right clicking on an item in the view or by pressing the Shift + F10 keys. Depending on the selection in the view, a set of available actions will be made available. A sample context menu is shown below.

Context menu in Systems Information view
Context menu

A summary of available actions is listed below:

ActionDescription
Add Query Creates a new query to locate z/OS resources
Allocate New Data Set Wizard Invokes File Manager® wizard to allocate various data sets
Close connections Closes all connections to the selected system
Compare wizard Invokes File Manager® compare wizard
Copy to clipboard Copies the full names of currently selected item(s) in the Systems Information view
Copy wizard Invokes File Manager® copy wizard to copy resources or data
Create data wizard Invokes File Manager® wizard to populate resources with data
Create Template Invokes File Manager® Template creation wizard to create a new template
Delete Deletes the selected resource on the z/OS system
Edit query Modifies existing queries
Edit system Invokes the Edit Connection dialog to update the connection information
Open Invokes File Manager® Formatted Editor Options dialog to start a view or edit session of the selected resource
Open with Template Editor Invokes File Manager® Template Editor for the currently selected resource
Properties Brings up Eclipse's Properties view which displays Properties of a selected item. For example, the File Manager® plug-in uses the Properties view to display properties of z/OS resources and queries (and allows some query properties to be modified directly from the view).
Refresh Refreshes the currently selected item in the view. For example, if you select a data set query and issue refresh, the latest data set information will be retrieved from the host. If you refreshing an item which has children which can be refreshed, those children will be refreshed as well.
Remove Removes the selected item from the view
Update Login Details Updates the user & password details for the selected system
Update Template Invokes File Manager® Template update wizard to update an existing template
View Error(s) Show any errors associated with the currently selected item in the view. For example, this option becomes available when authentication with the server fails; see Problem Diagnostics.
View Load Module wizard Invokes File Manager View Load Module wizard

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