The Eden Region Manager is designed for system administrators and others responsible for setting up and maintaining application information. All necessary components of an applications requirements are defined to Eden Server and Eden Client through this intelligent interface.

All application regions are created and maintained here, including set up for program / transaction relationships (i.e., system 'PCT' entries), file / dataset information (i.e., 'FCT' entries) as well as server connection information and Eden Client preferences.

Adding and maintaining files for an application region is quick and easy. Indexed, Relative and Sequential files are supported directly through Eden Server supplied routines. Automatic interrogation of disk files and creation of table entries greatly simplifies the task of maintaining all file related data. Files for the average application (50 files) can be added to a region in under 5 minutes.

Complete information for every aspect of each file is maintained by the system. Indexed files can also support up to 5 alternate keys per file. In addition to basic information required to access any file, the Eden Server system also provides a number of enhanced features on each file's Options page including error recovery options, maximum allowed size, open modes, etc.

System information including transaction and program definitions are maintained centrally in an INI file for each region. The Eden Client software accesses these files via the network once during each client session initialization.