Topics:

• Adapter Capabilities
• FOCUS and RDBMS Interaction
• The Adapter as an RDBMS Application
• Environment
• Ease of Use
• Efficiency
• Security

With the relational adapters, you can use FOCUS to access DB2, 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 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.