These topics provide information needed to plan for, customize, maintain, and diagnose problems with HCL Z Data Tools.
This section outlines how you can protect IMS™ resources that can be accessed through ZDT/IMS functions.
This topic describes how ZDT/IMS operates when IMS™ is configured to manage the runtime application control blocks (ACBs).
ZDT/IMS uses templates to format database segments into their individual fields. One template is required for each database.
You can customize ZDT/IMS for national languages other than English.
HCL Z Data Tools is a host component that supports a Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE.
HCL Z Data Tools is a host component that supports various interfaces such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDEs.
Z Data Tools 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 HCL Z Data Tools.
ZDT/IMS offers two modes of accessing IMS™ databases - DLI mode and BMP mode.