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sridhard · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Chennai

Hi,
Is there any difference between IMS and DLI?

Thanks
Sridhar

muthuraamn · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 7 Location: chennai

DLI - One of the IMS control program which runs batch jobs

sudhaaa · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 47

Hi Srishar,

DL/I - Data Language/I
In DB2, The queries you requested in your application program are directly retrive dat from the database.But in IMS, the calls issued are execute through DL/I,i.e.,call first issued to DL/I,then DL/I retrive the database into its area which neede to execute that call.

In any suggesions/mistakes, please correct me.

Regards,
Sudhaaa

avina · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Kolkata

Hi,

DL/I is associated with IMS unlike DB2. Here we use the DL/I call alongwith the other parameters such as the PCB-Mask, Seg I-O, SSAs alongiwth the DL/I functions to retrive the CBLTDLI calls.

Rgds,

Avik.

arunmozhicholan · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 17 Location: chennai

Data Language I is not a programming language. It is a set of IMS program modules that exist external to the application program. It allows application program to retrieve segment of the data from the DB sequentially or directly.