Introduction to CA IDMS Visual DBA › Features
Features
CA IDMS Visual DBA provides you with the following features, which enable you to do the following:
- Display all CA IDMS objects in a hierarchical tree. You can create, alter, drop, display objects, and assign privileges for each object in the tree.
- Define user profiles which limit the exploration of CA IDMS objects to those needed by the user.
- Connect to multiple CA IDMS systems simultaneously (r16, r17 or Version 18.0.00) during one CA IDMS Visual DBA session.
- View and search the CA IDMS log to obtain important information about a CA IDMS central version and its runtime objects.
- Increase productivity and decrease your learning curve because you no longer need to know the syntax of multiple online compilers or DCMT commands or the SQL language.
- Customize the tree, change fonts, set automatic refresh parameters, and save the current environment to a file for later use.
- Use multiple command consoles for SQL, for the CA IDMS compilers and for DCMT and DCUF.
- Visualize the properties of CA IDMS objects in the Detail Information Pane in many ways, using selectable tabs to maximize efficiency in comparing and evaluating them.
- Use a PC text editor with support for copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, find, replace, drag-and-drop capability with shortcut keys for common edit functions.
Note: Pie charts for monitoring program and storage pool use, and for the database space use are available, similar to how bar diagrams are available for statistical information and table/record space distribution.
The user interface for CA IDMS Visual DBA uses many Windows features that should already be familiar to you. These include the following:
- Drill-down icons.
- Pop-up menus to manipulate objects.
- Tear-out windows to customize your view of the hierarchical object tree display.
- The ability to drag-and-drop and cut-and-paste objects.
- Auto hiding panes.
- Tab bar to quickly access a window.
- Tooltips with extensive description.
- Extensive context sensitive help.
