IMS (Information
Management System) is
a program licensed by IBM. It is a database management and data communication
system that is used to manage intricate databases and terminal networks. IMS
enables you to define, reorganize, and load data structures, and to relate
data structures to an application.
With IMS, you can use the high-level language DL/I (Data Language/I)
to operate on the data that is controlled by the DBMS. DL/I calls are invoked
from application programs written in languages such as PL/I, COBOL, and C,
or by subroutine calls from assembler language programs.
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