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== IMS ==
The [[IBM Information Management System]] (IMS) uses the term "access method" to refer to its methods for manipulating "segments in a database record"."

These are: [[Generalized Sequential Access Method]] ([[GSAM]]), [[Hierarchical Direct Access Method]] ([[HDAM (computing)|HDAM]]), [[Hierarchical Indexed Direct Access Method]] ([[HIDAM]]), [[Hierarchical Indexed Sequential Access Method]] ([[HISAM]]), [[Hierarchical Sequential Access Method]] ([[HSAM (computing)|HSAM]]), [[Partitioned Hierarchical Direct Access Method]] ([[PHDAM]]), [[Partitioned Hierarchical Indexed Direct Access Method]] ([[PHIDAM]]), [[Partitioned Secondary Index]] ([[PSIMDEX]]), [[Simple Hierarchical Sequential Access Method]] ([[SHSAM]]), and [[Simple Hierarchical Indexed Sequential Access Method]] ([[SHISAM]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=IBM Corporation|title=Types of IMS databases|url=http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dzichelp/v2r2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.ims11.doc.dag%2Fims_dbtypes.htm|accessdate=September 4, 2011}}</ref> This is a different use of the term from the other access methods mentioned in this article.
 
== Modern implementations ==