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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorAlan R. Smith
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A content reactive reload utility receives one or more content reactive user directives that may influence processing depending upon the content of a populated target database. Records are then read from an unload file and the IMS segments contained therein are written to the target database. If an IMS segment receives a duplicate error in attempting to perform the write operation because the segment already exists in the target database, then processing continues in accordance with the previously received user directives. The content reactive user directive may indicate that processing should be terminated, that processing should continue with the next segment from the unload file or that the duplicate segment should replace the like segment in the target database. In this manner, an unload file can be applied to a populated IMS database to achieve many common database management tasks with enhanced programmer productivity and improved processing efficiency.
A method for performing on a computer system one or more database management tasks on a populated IMS database, comprising the steps of:
A method for performing a database management task on a populated IMS database utilizing a content reactive reload utility comprising the steps of:
A method for performing on a computer system one or more database management tasks on a populated database, comprising the steps of:
A computer system for performing one or more database management tasks on a populated IMS database, comprising:
An article of manufacture for use in a computer system tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said computer system to perform method steps for loading a populated IMS database, comprising:
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