[Info-vax] wrong file format

[1tim....@gmail.com]

RMS could be improved in a large number of ways. I'd really like to see some set operations, where you can operate on a number of records as a group.

Like a sys$get_recordset, where you specify a simple range on a key. i.e. Key 1, from "AA" to "DD". one of the arguments would have to be a buffer large enough to hold the returned data.  Today, we do these things in code layered on top of RMS.

sys$put_recordset
sys$update_recordset
sys$delete_recordset

etc.

A set of records is what most businesses are dealing with, like item lookups based on attributes, getting order history, processing lines on an order, etc.

then as a next go round, maybe simple joins on keys...but that begins to increase complexity, where maybe a native RDB or OODB starts making sense.