You can get management information about a selected structure under Goto ® IMG structure header data ® Display or Change in the IMG structure maintenance initial screen. The management information contains the following data:

• Creator and creation date of the structure
• Changer and change date
• Structure title
• Original language
• Structure and node types
• Structure buffering

You can switch buffering on or off in change mode. When buffering is active when you save the IMG structure all nodes, texts and links are also saved in the buffer to improve the performance of the structure display. You can refresh the contents of the buffer regularly with Edit ® Refresh buffer.

You can display or change the object directory (TADIR) entry for a selected structure with Utilities ® Object directory entry. The object directory entry contains:

• Object name
• Package
• Person responsible
• Original system
• Original language

You can display other structure attributes with the Object attributes icon.

This function goes to the system administration in the IMG. Customers can specify their own namespace under the node Specify namespace for report tree migration and customer IMG activities if they want to create their own IMG activities in Customizing.

Each IMG structure object can be edited either in the structure maintenance or in an extra transaction. The extra maintenance transactions have where-used lists and delete functions in addition to the IMG structure editing functions.

To edit attributes, maintenance objects or IMG activities with the extra maintenance transaction, choose Environment ® Edit attributes, Environment ® Edit maintenance objects or Environment ® Edit IMG activities in the IMG structure maintenance initial screen.