*Doesn't IDMS require calls for each field?*
*On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:04 PM Mike Schwab <000005962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu <000005962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>> wrote:* > > *Doesn't IDMS require calls for each field?* I don't know the product well enough. IDMS has FIND / GET for a record. IMS has GET (unique, next, within parent) etc. You could design a single segment database and access each segment(record) by key. I guess you would call that VSAM KSDS. My tongue in cheek reference to SQL was that it's not the animal first delivered now. So many extensions and fiddles to make it work tolerably. I don't believe that any RDB follows Codd's rules. It's why the average DBA spends most of their time tuning, reorganising and berating programmers. Where is the self-reorganising database? I know that Joe Lynn at CA hinted at this for Datacom/DB. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
