[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/24/2019 8:45 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <37c79af8-f631-4847-b4e8-7158fdba1a00 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> That may not be possible depending upon how the customer is using Oracle-RD=
>> B. Recall that RDB was developed by DEC as a successor to RMS. Certain DEC =
>> languages, like COBOL and BASIC, have builtin support for RMS while other D=
>> EC languages provide indirect RMS support via the linker.
> 
>     You want to be more specific about that claim?

Many VMS languages have language level support for
index-sequential files (which is often what is meant
by RMS even though practically any file access is
via RMS). Definitely Pascal and Cobol. And likely
also Basic. But not C.

Any VMS language can use RMS SYS$ calls to access
index-sequential files. Including C. Which may be
what the "linking" was meant to say.

Arne