BIM-Edit provides an easy-to-use editor, tight source control, a flexible and straightforward security system, flexible operations, and a powerful, yet simple‑to‑use procedure processor.
Straightforward security system, offering six access levels and any number of user/library security relationships.
Efficient CPU use with a low virtual storage requirement.
Allows any number of libraries to be defined and any number of members in a library, without loss of efficiency.
Allows you to START, XCTL, or LINK to other CICS programs (when you are logged on through CICS), 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.
Offers a full-function internal mail system, allowing either full documents or single-line messages to be sent from one user to another.
Provides source control with multiple facilities, including
Check-in/check-out control
Member auditing
Member stamping
Purge control
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.
Can be accessed through
One or multiple CICSs
VTAM directly
A batch utility job stream
The system console
A TCP/IP FTP interface
A user-written program calling BIM-EDIT interface routines
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.