Due to security features built into PIMS, you cannot directly open a PIMS data table. However, you can import PIMS data into a new secure database. With an administrator login to this new database, you can design your own queries or export data into Excel.

To do this:

1. Download the evaluator tool.
2. In the Opening pims_eval.zip window, check Save File and click OK. This should save a file named pims_eval.zip to your desktop.
3. Right click on pims_eval.zip, select Open With and then Compressed (zipped) folders.
4. In the pims_eval.zip window, click Extract all files.
5. You should see a window, Welcome to the Compressed Folders Extraction Wizard. Click Next.
6. The next window asks you to select a destination. Click Browse...
7. Navigate to the pims8 folder (usually in C:, then Program Files (x86)), and click OK. If this folder doesn't exist (i.e. you haven't installed PIMS 8), create a new folder named pims8 in the Program Files (x86) directory.
8. Back in the Select a Destination window, click Next.
9. If you get a Confirm File Replace message, click Yes to All.
10. The next window should let you know that the extraction was completed. Leave the box labeled show extracted files checked, and click Finish.
11. The pims8 window should open. Drag the XP Shortcut to PIMS Eval to your desktop.
12. If necessary, you may have to modify the shortcut to reflect your version of Microsoft Access by right-clicking on the shortcut, going to Properties, and then updating the version number of Office in both the Start In and Target boxes.

Version	Target
Office 2000	Office
Office XP	Office10
Office 2003	Office11
Office 2007	Office12
Office 2010	Office14
Office 2013	Office15
Office 2016	Office16

13. Double-click on the correct Shortcut to PIMS eval.
14. Log in using the password provided by your technical assistant.
15. From the File menu, go to Get External Tables, and select Import (to work with a snapshot of PIMS data) or Link to work directly with a PIMS data set.
16. Locate your pims data table (usually called something like pimstab_md0xx.mdb), and click Import. If you don't have access to PIMS data then you can link to the training data (training2018.mdb) in the eval toolkit.
17. In the Import Objects window, select all the tables you wish to import, and click OK.