Was that a real thing?
And if so, was it any better than their IDMS offering?
(Which, in my humble opinion, was a pile of hierarchical pointer-based shite.)
(, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 15:19, Reply)
I beg to differ
IDMSX was/still is better than the bastard IBM version. And VME easier to develop on than IBM z/os systems I work on now...
(, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:38, Reply)
I can't speak for the "X" version...
...(was that a 'relational' jobbie?) but the one I worked with was evil incarnate. God help you if you needed to increase the size of a database: Certainly sir, just run this set of utilities to dump the whole thing off (as 'flat' files) and then reload / rebuild it all again - only takes forever, with no guarantee of success. Poor old ICL support staff even wanted to buy integrity checking tools that I'd written!
(, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:30, Reply)