Data Management

BIM-Edit

Source Program Editor

Platform: z/VSE and VSEⁿ

BIM-EDIT replaces IBM's ICCF program editor system, providing a much easier-to-use editor, tighter source control, a more flexible and straightforward security system, significantly better performance, more flexible operations, and a more powerful, yet simpler-to-use procedure processor.

Some Key Features:

• BIM-Edit's library security system is straightforward, offering six access levels and any number of user/library security relationships
• Consumes significantly fewer CPU cycles than ICCF with a lower virtual storage requirement
• Allows any number of libraries to be defined and any number of members in a library, without loss of efficiency
• When you are logged on through CICS, BIM-Edit allows you to START, XCTL, or LINK to other CICS programs, and you can log off anytime, even when you're editing a member
• Supports 3270 CRT models two, three, four, and five, and permits lines up to 253 characters long (ICCF lines are always 80 characters long)
• BIM-Edit also offers a full-function e-mail system, allowing either full documents or single-line messages to be sent from one user to another

BIM-Edit provides source control with multiple facilities, including:

• Check-in/check-out control
• Member auditing
• Member stamping
• Purge control

BIM-Edit also:

• Edits a work copy of a member, never the permanent copy. The work copy becomes a permanent copy only when the SAVE command is issued. If an inadvertent error is made, the command END NOSAVE ends the edit session without affecting the permanent copy.
• Provides a useful function list feature and easy-to-use LP sessions while maintaining all groups and sessions on a circular chain
• Features a split-screen facility so that two different session types can be displayed on the screen
• Always stores text in a compressed format, and always compresses outbound screen data to the maximum possible extent

ICCF distinguishes between procedures and macros, each with its own set of rules and constraints—BIM-Edit makes no such distinction, a simplification in itself

BIM-Edit can be accessed through;

• One or multiple CICSs
• VTAM directly
• A batch utility job stream
• The system console
• A TCP/IP FTP interface
• A BIM-FAQS product
• A user-written program calling BIM-Edit interface routines

BIM-Edit provides fast, automatic recovery after computer or other failure, and allows round-the-clock update access to its library, even while it is being backed up

Conversion Info:

BIM-Edit can replace:

Endeavor Change Manager Interface for CA-Librarian VSE

• CA-Librarian for VSE
• CA-Panvalet for VSE
• CA-Panvalet ICCF Option
• ICCF
• CA-Vollie
• CONDOR
• QUOTA