NMCS Information Processing Systems 360 Formatted File System (NIPS 360 FFS). General Description. Change 3.

Abstract

The NIPS 360 FFS is an advanced data management system providing powerful, efficient, and flexible data management support to a wide variety of users. NIPS provides the ability to structure files, generate and maintain files, retrieve information and output that information in simple or complex arrays on a variety of output devices. Seven major processing functions are provided: (1) File Definition (structure); (2) File Generation and Maintenance; (3) File Revision; (4) Data Selection and Ordering (retrieval); (5) Formal Report Generation (output); (6) Terminal Processing and Display; and (7) Utility programs supporting table generation, subroutine loading and data conversion, among others.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1977
Accession Number
ADA056202

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  • National Military Command System

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Batch Processing
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Management
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Terminals

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  • Computer Science.