| William M. Klein 2004-11-17, 8:55 pm |
| In fact, (and this may show that I am "wedded" to old habits), this was one of
the reasons that I used that technique. For those familiar with IBM
(historical) stuff, a VSAM file (IBM's "ISAM implementation" - if you use ISAM
in a generic sense) could be read as an IMS SHISAM database. At one time (I
hope not currently) switching between the two was something that some shops and
some applications did.
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"LX-i" <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Howard Brazee wrote:
>
> Yes, but changing from a "file" to a "database" would be greatly facilitated
> by having the READ in one place, as that would be more than a data division
> change. :) (And, one could argue that the change from a file to a database
> would be a "format" change - it definitely changes the format in which it's
> stored on the disk!)
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