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return additional data in a response 9/ subcode 3 case in the first 2 bytes of the ACB Additions 2

Hello, If the user session gets, resp/sub 9/3 due to TNAE-timeout or a stop user command and the user was not in transaction status, it may be possible to retry the call. But in case of TNAE-timeout or stop user during an active transaction, this ...
Tatjana Sawtschenko over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Long-Alpha field support in Replicator

“ADABAS currently supports Long-Alpha fields. We are now using Replicator to replicate from our Adabas files into Sql Server tables. Unfortunately at this time, Replicator does not seem to support replicating the long alpha fields. We would like t...
David Wilbur over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 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 7 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

Console Message For UTIONLY Mode

If an Adabas system is started in READONLY mode, this will be shown with a console MESSAGE (ADAN01 xxxxx R E A D O N L Y = YES). If an Adabas system is started in UTIONLY mode, an appropriate message is missing. UTIONLY should get acknowledged the...
Hermann Pfeiffer about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability 1 Under development

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

Keep Record Count in FCB

We expend about $14,000 per year in cpu costs using Adarep or AOS to read the AC blocks to get record counts. Keeping the record count in the FCB (tracking A1's,E1's, ET's,BT's) would save us this cost. Though we are a medium shop, we have 142 dat...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under development

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

ADARES BACKOUT Requirements for DDBACK disk datasets

Please note that our environment having a project goingto start for replacing Virtual Tape Storage medium to Hard Disk Storage medium.We know the following requirements for ADARES BACKOUT:- "The BACKOUT function requires that the read backward fea...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability 0 Under development