Using the CA-IDMS Data Adapter Under CMS

The data adapter is provided on your FOCUS distribution tape. The files necessary to make the data adapter operative will automatically be placed on the FOCUS production disk by following the standard FOCUS installation instructions.

For local mode, Shared DASD, and UCF access, you must issue a FILEDEF command for each IDMS data source file. You may place these FILEDEF commands in the FOCUS EXEC, in a global FOCUS profile, a local user profile, a FOCEXEC, a CMS EXEC, or issue them from the command line. To access Central Version data sources, no special FILEDEF commands are required.

In addition, users will need to link to the Computer Associates production disk and issue the following GLOBAL commands:

GLOBAL TXTLIB IDMSLIB
GLOBAL LOADLIB libname

where:

libname

Is the name of the load library into which IDMS was link edited.

To access IDMS data sources through the Cross Machine Interface, the GATEWAY id and the target job must be started.