[Info-vax] wrong file format

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Thu Jan 7 13:24:03 EST 2021


On 2021-01-07 17:44:40 +0000, 1tim.... at gmail.com said:

> So do I, a product with a data dictionary and routines that use it to 
> get at data.
> Short of making a relational or object oriented Database part of the 
> OS, some extensions to RMS would go a long ways to being useful and 
> shouldn't be that hard to implement. Once you start wandering into 
> relational operators and joins, stuff get more complex and at that 
> point you really should have a database...

Given there's a widely-used, portable, and robust SQL database already 
ported to OpenVMS, and the port was integrated with the lock manager, 
and it's free...
...Tweaks around the edges of RMS which would require app code changes, 
and replacing or acquiring CDD/Repository—for a fraction of what SQL 
provides—don't seem optimal.


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