Notices Preface Audience for this Guide What is Covered in this Guide Naming Protocol What You Should Know to Use this Guide Glossary Conventions used in this guide What This Guide Contains Additional tableBASE References VTS Manager References Customer Support Training and Professional Services About DataKinetics Introduction Overview Mastering Change Optimizing Resources Improving Performance What is tableBASE? tableBASE Features Date-Sensitive Processing Accessing a Table Indirectly Flexible Indexing Version Control Multitasking Table Management tableBASE Sophisticated Memory Management tableBASE at Work Benefits of tableBASE Additional Products which Enhance tableBASE Base Product CICS TS and IMS TM Interfaces tablesONLINE VTS (Virtual Table Share) VTS Manager VTS Gate tableBASE Concepts tableBASE Architecture tableBASE Nucleus tableSPACE Region Memory model Data Spaces tableBASE Libraries tableBASE tables Table Organizations and Search Methods Table Organizations Search Methods Indexes Alternate Indexes tableBASE Application Programming Interface (API) TBLBASE Protecting tableBASE tables Read and Write Passwords LOCK-LATCH Maintenance tableBASE Maintenance Table Maintenance VTS-TSR Maintenance Installation Administration Development tableBASE Facilities Command Executors CICS TS Batch and TSO/ISPF Utility Programs Batch Utility Programs Conversion Utility for Libraries Using tableBASE tableBASE Development Administrator Data Analyst Programmer End User tableBASE Commands Basic tableBASE Activities Define a Table Open a Table Access a Table Store a Table Close a Table An Example: Open, Store, and Close a Table Using VTS (Virtual Table Share) Performance enhancement using VTS Performance issues experienced when over-taxing the local TSR VTS provides the solution More options with VTS Reduction of system resource usage using VTS Improved data integrity using VTS VTS enhances data integrity Using tablesONLINE Accessing and Maintaining tablesONLINE The Menu System The Table Editor Using tablesONLINE tablesONLINE System Administrator tablesONLINE Application Developers Build a Table Utilities tablesONLINE End User’s Menu Modifying tablesONLINE Extensions to Editing via User Exits tablesONLINE for Data Entry Other Special Features of tablesONLINE System Specifications Home / Documentation Archive / tableBASE Concepts and Facilities Guide / tableBASE Facilities Utility Programs Batch Utility Programs Conversion Utility for Libraries Doc navigation < Command Executors