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12.10.2 Defining a database
When the design of a database has been completed, it must be specified to DL/I
by these steps. A description of the single steps follows:
Database description generation (DBDGEN)
Program Specification Block Generation (PSBGEN)
Application control blocks generation (ACBGEN)
Database space allocation
Database description generation (DBDGEN)
The DBDGEN process implements the hierarchical structure of the data by
describing a real physical or (virtually constructed) logical database (physical or
logical DBD) in a formal definition language. It applies to the system ...