To load a database you
can either use the database management utility (as described in the section
IMSDBU Utility) or
perform the following steps:
From within the IDE
- In
COBOL Explorer, right-click a .dbd file in your project, and click
Database Utilities > Load.
- In the
Load IMS database dialog, specify the .dat file to use in the
Input/Output file name field.
- Set the correct
File layout and any other settings as required, and click
OK.
From an
Enterprise Developer command prompt
- Navigate to the folder containing the
.dat files.
- Enter the following command for each
.dat file:
mfims imsdbu load datfilename
Note: If you have more than one database to load you can use the Windows
for command to simplify this operation, for example:
for %i in (*.dat) do mfims imsdbu load %i
datfilename is case sensitive.
Note: datfilename is case sensitive.
By default, this loads the database from a file with the same basename as
datfilename but with the extension
.DBU. You can change this behavior using the DSN and LAYOUT options.