Efficiency

The adapter is extremely efficient because:

  1. IDMS data sources are not physically recreated as FOCUS data sources in order to make them intelligible to FOCUS. Only Master and Access Files are required to describe the IDMS data source to FOCUS.
  2. End users can access IDMS data sources easily with FOCUS requests. No 3GL programming is required.
  3. IDMS resources used to access records are kept to a minimum because the adapter:

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