Introduction to Navigational Programming › Housekeeping Functions

Housekeeping Functions

In order to access a CA IDMS database using navigational DML, an application program must:

• Establish a session with the database manager
• Bind each database record type to be accessed to a location in variable storage
• Ready areas containing data to be accessed
• Terminate the database session after access is complete

Each of these housekeeping functions is discussed in the following sections.