This first volume in the Database Experts' Series uses real-world systems experience to explain IBM's new mainframe relational database — Database 2. written for a computer-literate audience — programmers, database administrators, and others with previous database experience in mainframe computing — this is the first book to provide in-depth coverage and instruction in Database 2. IBM hopes to have all its mainframe customers converted to Database 2 by 1992 and this valuable guide is a "must-have" for the thousands of developers who must learn to design and implement its applications.