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EdwardW355 wrote:
> 
> In article <34D67A20.6979@sympatico.ca>, Chip Ling <chipling@sympatico.ca>
> writes:
> 
> >> Does anyone know if there is, and where to get a tool which can be used to
> >> view the database structure of this kind of database?
> 
> >Does your shop equips with OLQ or DMLO. Both utility allows you to
> >navigate to the IDMS database.
> 
> Navigation isn't the problem; knowing what's there to navigate is.  Computer
> Associates has a utility (IDMSRPTS ?? anyone) that will print out a textual
> description of the database structure.  Useful, but a picture would be worth a
> lot.
> I have in front of me a Bachman diagram produced on a plotter (not much help to
> most of us) of a database that I once worked on.  Although I believe that it's
> the output of a utility and not a print of a hand-drawn diagram, no information
> to that effect appears on the chart - sigh!

(Somewhere a programmer is crying out..."He has an IDMSRPTS!?!?!  How
lucky!!")

Actually, the IDMSRPTS -- while admittedly not as helpful as a Bachman
-- should
give you all you need to navigate and give you some fascinating detail
of sets, 
owners and members, as well as index sets.  It isn't pretty but it
works.

In some cases, having an IDMSRPTS is better because a Bachman lacks
field layouts, etc
of records (which can be a 'pain' when you're extracting data from
record fields and
updating fields on the record).

You might want to pass this question on to the bit.listserv.idms-l
newsgroup.