
Define the database structure with a database descriptor (DVD) and outline the step-by-step IMS DBD creation process, emphasizing security, referential integrity, and program specification (PSB) concepts.
Learn to create PSBs and define BSB based access by segments, enforcing policy constraints to protect patient data while guiding the DBD creation process.
Explore IMS DBD creation in part 3, defining macro-based segments, dataset space, and fields, with primary key concepts, lengths, and built-in DVD types for sequential storage.
Explore IMS DB DBD creation fundamentals, including defining fields and segments, establishing a primary key, and enabling random reads through properly designated primary fields and sequences.
Define the patient segment in an IMS DB DBD, configure fields like bed length and period, and implement a unique sequence with a primary or composite key.
Define unique database names within IMS DBD creation, and ensure segment names are unique. Map fields for patient data, symptoms, and treatments, and establish parent-child relationships and treatment sequences.
This video is extracted from IMS DB live training (previous batch) and Uploaded video (DBD creation) for your reference and understanding.
In this video, i explained:
How to create DBD/ IMS Database and Process
Macros
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In IMS systems that use DBD libraries, use the Database Description Generation (DBDGEN) utility to define a database so that it can be used by an application program
This utility might not be used in IMS systems that manage runtime application control blocks by using the catalog.
A database description (DBD) is a DL/I control block containing all of the database information needed by an application program.
You create a database description (DBD) by coding special macro instructions. These macros become the input to the DBDGEN utility.
You can use only one physical DBD to describe each physical database; otherwise, a user abend, such as 0850, 0852, or 0853 occurs. At execution time, DL/I uses the DBD to create a set of internal control blocks.
The DBDGEN utility defines each DBD with the following database information:
Segment types
Physical and logical relationships between segment types
Database organization and access method
Physical characteristics of the database
Define the name and data options of selected exit routines
Metadata that describes the database and the data stored in the database