Templates and views

An ZDT/IMS template is a collection of information that you can use to select and format fields and segments for an IMS database. The template provides ZDT/IMS with a logical view of the data to be used when editing, browsing, extracting and printing.

Templates are based on COBOL, HLASM, or PL/I copybooks

The ZDT/IMS component, Z Data Tools Base component and ZDT/Db2 component all use templates. However, these templates are not interchangeable: you cannot, for example, use a Base template for IMS data.