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INFOS II Compatibility
TBAM supports all of the INFOS features on which your business application
depends, without the annoying restrictions that require costly database
rebuilds.
Since AOS/VS COBOL had an imbedded interface for INFOS, Datatek ships TBAM
with a COBOL precompiler, which allows Data General COBOL programmers to
continue programming using the COBOL INFOS statements with which they
are familiar. Additionally, TBAM supports the INFOS library calls that
were available in the other Data General languages.
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Turbocharged Performance
Switching to newer and faster Open Systems hardware, coupled with the
performance features of TBAM can give you a phenomenal boost in speed and
response time. What took hours to run on an MV can now take minutes.
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Full Recoverability
The improved recovery features of TBAM offer important cost savings
benefits. You no longer have costly delays caused by INFOS checkpointing.
With TBAM's soft recovery feature you will have minimal downtime after a
power failure. Even if a disk drive fails, you don't have to waste
time re-entering data from the current day's business.
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Transactions
TBAM also
allows your programmers to add relational-like recovery and
logical consistency features to your application with transactions that
can span multiple databases. Using transactions, your applications can
treat multiple database operations as one logical operation. TBAM has
full support for commits and rollbacks.
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Improved INFOS Features
TBAM has also improved upon a
number of INFOS features. For instance, if you needed to add another
volume to an INFOS database, you had to spend time dumping and reloading
the entire database. With TBAM, you can add volumes on the fly.
Improvements have been made in numerous areas including partial records,
space management, record management, file and record locking, and database
management utilities. In addition, applications that cannot access a
record due to it being locked by another process can now retrieve information
about the locking process.
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