System and method for enabling an interpreted programming language to be executed in a database management system environment

摘要

A computer system and method are: provided for interfacing unlike computer software environments of an interpretive programming language (such as Rexx) and a database management system (such as IMS), into a single seamless environment, whereby the facilities of both original environments can be accessed from a single application program, without requiring any awareness of the context of the program. In order to interface the environments, a process and system are provided for mapping data structures of different data types and varying composition into a format that is known and can be utilized by the application program written in the interpretive language.