DEDBs Greater than 240 Areas Increases capacity Greater design flexibility

<BODY text="#000066" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red" background=""> <A NAME="pgtop"></A> <A HREF="indexc.htm"><Img Src="flconts.gif" ALT="Table of Contents" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index12.htm"><Img Src="fllarrow.gif" ALT="Previous" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="index14.htm"><Img Src="flrarrow.gif" ALT="Next" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <A HREF="#pgbot"><Img Src="flnote.gif" ALT="Speaker Notes" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <BR> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="index13.gif" WIDTH="443" HEIGHT="342" ALT="Page Image"> <HR ALIGN="left" size=5 WIDTH="65%"> <A NAME="pgbot"></A> <UL><LI>IMS's Fast Path capability continues to be enhanced to provide the fastest access through the system, continuing to lead database products. Against industry standard benchmarks it continues to show as the best price performance at the lowest cost, confirming that nothing in the transaction market matched the speed and power of the IBM S/390 and z/Series with IMS. <LI>IMS V8 Fast Path Data Entry Database (DEDB) Enhancements include <LI>DEDBs Greater than 240 Areas (to 2048) extends capacity of Fast Path Databases above the previous 240 area restriction and significantly increases the number of Areas supported by Data Entry Databases. This provides more data storage capacity in each DEDB and could lead to greater design flexibility. <LI>Non-recoverable DEDBs are provided for use as work databases where recoverability is not a requirement. Marking the DEDB non-recoverable would reduce the amount of log record and checkpoint information, thus improving on the performance of IMS. </UL> <HR ALIGN=left size=5 WIDTH=65%> <A HREF="#pgtop"><Img Src="flpage.gif" ALT="Top of Page" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24></A> <FONT SIZE="-2">Published by <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com">Lotus</A>® <A HREF="http://www.lotus.com/freelance">Freelance Graphics</A>®</FONT> </BODY>