IDMS Beginner needs help!

[Greg Lock]

Hi,

I am looking for some good sources of info for learning
about IDMS with COBOL II (IBM Mainframe).

Could someone recommend to me some good publications/web sites
that I can visit which would help me get a head start...

I have no current knowledge of IDMS, as I am primarily
from an IMS DB/DC background, but have recently picked
up some DB2. Anyone who could enlighten me on any
similarities between the above and IDMS, the info would be
much appreciated.

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Regards.....

......Greg.

[Winston Yoon]

Hi Greg,

You may have seen these already in IDMS-L:

http://www.iuassn.com
http://home.sol.no/tige/idmssql

As for publications, I hope you can still find these;

"The ADS/Online Cookbook", Larry E. Towner, 1986, Macmillan.
Goes into IDMS basics as well as ADS/O.

"IDMS/R Systems Desk Reference", Robert Husband, Terence McHenry,
Judith Wooten, 1987, John Wiley & Sons.
Discusses IDMS DBA.

"IDMS/R", Larry E. Towner, 1989, McGraw-Hill.
Database design as well as IDMS basics.

"Understanding Database Management Systems", Robert M. Mattison, 1993,
McGraw-Hill.
Really short comparisons between DBMS's.

Let me know if you find more recent publications, will you?

Winston Yoon