File and Data Management
StarTool FDM gives you a comprehensive environment for editing and managing PDS, PDSE, sequential, extended sequential, direct, DB2, and VSAM files (including their contents). StarTool FDM simplifies file management tasks and eliminates the need for multiple tools, batch utilities, and homegrown routines within the datacenter.
Broad Editing Capabilities
StarTool FDM provides a broad set of editing capabilities. You can copy like files to unlike files, and copy subsets of files based on user-defined selection criteria. Full-screen Copybook editing gives you the ability to edit individual VSAM records within the context of a COBOL or PL/I program's copybook record layout.
Addtionally, StartTool FDM provides global search and repace, restoration of accidentally deleted members without reverting to backup tapes, and expiration of PDS directory blocks or addition of data set space. Records can be quickly added, deleted, updated, and inserted in a VSAM data set. You can even pad records with blanks, binary zeros, or any other value.
Load Module Expertise
Extensive load module management facilities allow users to perform complex tasks in a single step.
With StarTool FDM, users can interrogate a single module or selected subset of modules to assist in identifying properties, such as COBOL attributes and IDR DATA. Using the CSECT and ZAP commands, an application programmer can make changes to a load module without having to re-compile and link edit the program.
DB2, Compare, and Data Conversion
StarTool FDM also supports the management of DB2 data and comparison of data sets one to another. To help developers save precious time when testing programs, StarTool FDM can automate the process of incremending, decrementing, or specifying default values for data fields.