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Who Should Use this Document

This guide assumes you are a new user of CA IDMS Server with experience using Windows or z/OS, and have familiarity with CA IDMS and database access.

Use this document if you are a database administrator or system administrator, an ODBC or JDBC application developer, or the end user of an application using CA IDMS Server to access a CA IDMS database.

• If you are a database administrator or end user, use this document to define data sources to access CA IDMS data from a client application.
• System administrators should use this document to set up a CA IDMS system for access by CA IDMS Server.
• If you are an application developer, use this document to understand how the ODBC and JDBC Application Program Interfaces (APIs) requests are implemented by CA IDMS Server.