Determining How an Entity Should Be Stored › Location Modes

Location Modes

To guarantee efficient database performance, you need to plan the best use of computer storage resources and provide for the most efficient data access. Several facilities are available under CA IDMS/DB for this purpose. By minimizing the number of input/output operations performed against the database, these facilities ensure optimal processing performance.

The data location modes in CA IDMS/DB provide you with the following capabilities:

• Randomization
• Clustering