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Extensive DBKEY Capabilities

CA IDMS DMLO provides extensive facilities for manipulation and display of database keys. Whenever a CA IDMS DMLC command requires a database key, you may use page-line, hexadecimal, or decimal literals. In addition, CA IDMS DMLO provides ten KEYPADS which may serve as source/target fields for commands. The SHOW KEYPADS command will display all three formats of these KEYPADS. Thus, you can use CA IDMS DMLO as a modest hex calculator.

In addition to providing data-base keys, page-information values may be supplied on the FIND/OBTAIN DML statement. CA IDMS DMLO provides ten page-info KEYPADS PGR0 - PGR9. The SHOW KEYPADS command will display both DBKEY and PAGE-INFO values.