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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 7 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 8 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 New

ADAORD reorder with FILE= and no other parms should be an error

ADAORD REORASSO FILE=123 is a valid request that will simply reorder the entire associator - the "FILE=" parameter, while appearing to apply only to one file, actually does nothing, unlike the similar ADAORD REORFASSO FILE=123 which reorganizes ju...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 3 Not in Plan

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 over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 1 New

Printing DRIVES & DATASET info., when ADAREP is run against a SAVETAPE

We have very old backups on VTS tape system with multipledatasets (DRIVES ranging from 3-8). To know the state of the backup we ran ADAREP SAVETAPEagainst a 2007 Backup dataset, which was taken with DRIVES=3. And followinginformation is listed at ...
Zaffer Khan over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 1 Planned

Make calculation of expanded file chain while nucleus is active

KB article 1765090 is related to this feature request.Sequence of events: ADASAV back up database; ADADBS delete all application files; ADAORD REORDB; ADASAV restore FMOVE all application files (expanded files in the database) back into database. ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Under Review

Enlarge maximum secondary allocation size for files

The maximum secondary allocation size for data storage, normal index and upper index for an Adabas file are file attributes. Their values are kept in the FCB.Unfortunately, there's only a halfword (2 bytes) provided for those values and the values...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Scalability 0 Planned

Adadbs Deallocate by cylinders

The DEALLOCATE function of the ADADBS utility is accepting values for the size parameters (ACSIZE | AC2SIZE | DSSIZE | NISIZE | UISIZE) only in units of RABN blocks.Most other utilities and functions allow the provision of size values in blocks or...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

ADASEL Enhancement to Produce Output for UsSERDATA from an ET

Looking for an enhancement to ADASEL that allows the product to write out USERDATA that is produced not only by a C5 command but also by an ET command.
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Utilities 0 Planned

ADADABS ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE to be allowed even if file currently used

Currently, it is not possible to proceed with an ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE of space on a file with ADADBS if a file is used ( even if is it only being read).We have got very big files (high number of records and high number of cylinders in allocation) i...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Under Review
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