What is an Associator in ADABAS?

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What is an Associator in ADABAS?..

Answer / kiran kumar

Associator contains inverted list and address converter.

1. Inverted list contains the internal sequence number(ISN)
and the despritor and even the number of ISNs associated
with the descriptor.
2. Address converter contains the corresponding block
numbers(to be physically located in a particular database
file) for the ISNs in the default order of ISNs.

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What is an Associator in ADABAS?..

Answer / jana

Associator is one of the datasets of the adabas.
It contains -
Number of adabas files which have been allocated in data
storage.
The physical location of the extents of the file in the data
storage.
Address converter, Inverted list, FDT.

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What is an Associator in ADABAS?..

Answer / pat

The Associator contains information about data
relationships.

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What is an Associator in ADABAS?..

Answer / giri

Associator is one of the main components required for and
ADABAS Database to exist. This holds the information about
the Database, Files, Free space, Inverted lists & Address
Convertor.

Associator holds the information required for accessing the
data from DATASTRORAGE. This has General Control Block, File
Control Block, Free Space table, Data Storage Space Table,
Inverted Lists of Each file and Address Converter for the
database.

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