🚀 go-pugleaf

you could be talking about oracle here; but it requires a large hardware
investment. you might want to look into focus, by ibi inc. it's an
excellent product, and ibi sells lots of middleware for it also. i have
used focus extensively on mvs, unix, pc; it also runs on cms, windows and
god knows what else. (i'm looking for a linux version myself!!) native
support for xbase, oracle, sybase, idms, adabas, teradata, comma-delim,
sdf, and about 40 other file structures. code looks like:
******************
table file employee
print name date empno salary
on date subtotal
run
******************
the only syntax change between platforms ic concerning os calls (i.e. 
dos del temp.fil
unix rm temp.fil

no i don't work for ibi - just a very satisfied customer!!