What is DATACOM.
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 1:59 am
Datacom: Datacom/DB is a relational database management system for the mainframes. It was originally developed by Insyte Datacom and later acquired by Applied Data Research, however, it is now owned by CA Technologies which renamed it to CA-Datacom/DB and later to CA Datacom/DB.
- In this Data is stored in the form of databases, which can have one or more keys.
- Access is through ‘embedded” datacom calls in high level languages, or through "data-query".
- This is NOT a Relational Database Manager or even a sophisticated database manager
- This is a filing system, for better organization of data
- It has the basic features of a filing system - keys, indexes etc.
- It has locking features, to prevent “lost updates”