IDMSX for VME Program Developers

Audience

This course is for applications programmers, technical and production support staff. Operations analysts will also benefit from this course.

Skills Gained

This course provides experienced COBOL programmers with the skills and understanding to design, code and test programs to access an IDMS database. The concepts and principles underlying IDMS are explored and all elements of Data Manipulation Language are taught in depth and practised in hands-on workshop sessions.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have knowledge of COBOL and have some experience of the VME environment

Course Outline

Introduction

• Database concepts
• IDMSX Principles

IDMS Structure

• Logical Structure
• Record / Set types
• Record / Set occurrences
• Schema / Subschema

Bachman Diagrams Physical Structure

• Database keys
• Record placement
• Set characteristics

Accessing the Database Data Manipulation Language

• Environment / Data Division
• COPY IDMS