Introduction to Relational Data Adapters

Topics: Relational Data Adapter Capabilities FOCUS and RDBMS Interaction The Data Adapter as an RDBMS Application Environment Ease of Use Efficiency Security

With the relational data adapters, you can use FOCUS to access DB2, DB2 for VM, Teradata, Oracle, and CA-IDMS/DB (with the SQL option) tables and views. FOCUS is well adapted to relational environments and fully supports the relational data model. Beginners as well as advanced data processing professionals can take advantage of data adapter retrieval and analysis facilities, including easy-to-use, menu-driven query tools and a powerful reporting language that can satisfy virtually any requirement. FOCUS Master and Access Files integrate all facilities and provide transparent access to the underlying relational data source.