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Add non-keyed search functions

This could apply to all ADABAS versions and platforms. During the customer story on 6/21 with Michael S and St. of Delaware, they noted that connx queries for null values or non-keyed searches on million record files take minutes to respond and ar...
Dana Sherbondy almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 1 New

Show DS block usage for a file reading only DSST.

If you want to know how much space is available in the used DS blocks of a big file - ADADRU will read all used DS blocks and use much resources. Instead, make a function in ADADRU or SYSAOS to get this information from just the DSST elements of t...
Bjarne Soerensen 12 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

ADASEL: Increase DDEXPA DD cards to maximum of 99, similar to ASSO & DATA DD Cards

We are managing VLDB ADABAS database serving the population of the country. Our national Database contains more than 150 ADABAS Files. Many a times, we are tasked with producing transactional investigations using multiple large Protection Logs ag...
Zaffer Khan about 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 New

Modify ADAORD as a file crawler to REORDER a file

Allow ADAORD to work two blocks at a time to slowly crawl through a file. only the records from the first two RABNS would be put on hold and movement of records from #2 to #1 would be coordinated with the nucleus. Once the first block was finished...
Craig Soehnlin over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

TRANSACTIONS SUSPEND to show related P-log block number.

When making use of TRANSACTIONS SUSPEND and RESUME for taking a snapshot copy of the database container datasets - it would be useful if the ADADBS would write the related protection log block number of the SYNC. This block number will be needed a...
Bjarne Soerensen almost 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Allow ADACMP DECOMPRESS to write ASCII without UES enabled nucleus.

The ability for ADACMP DECOMPRESS to write non-EBCDIC in combination with a user-specified format buffer is great. It would be even greater if it could work without the nucleus being UES enabled. Allow an ADACMP parameter to force the source codep...
Bjarne Soerensen about 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Utilities 0 New

Allow Adabas Cluster Services maintenance without downtime.

z/OS can upgrade one LPAR at a time in the cluster - but Adabas needs all cluster nuclei to be down to upgrade between releases or to apply particular zaps. Make Adabas Cluster Services able to be upgraded without downtime. From duplicate ADAMF-I-...
Bjarne Soerensen over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Adabas Cluster Services (ALS) / HA 0 New