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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

ADASEL BACKOUT INDICATOR BYTE36

The backout indicator is not available in DISPLAY mode of ADSELIt is only available in OUTPUT EXTENDED ( or ADAPLP)Could it be added to the DISPLAY option when byte 36 is 'B' in the same way as an ADD is shown as NEWREC (also delete and update) - ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under development

SPATs messages - MVS console log

Currently we receive errors of Natural programs on SPATs (triggers) in SYSOUT TSPRTnn but what we want is to receive also as these error messages on the MVS SYSLOG. It is impossible to ascend alerts automatically in real time by an alert tool (suc...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

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 about 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 over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Need a way to check which ACI zaps are applied

ADAZIN is good for checking which ADA zaps are applied to a load library, and DUMP ZAPS in Natural is good for checking which NAT, NCI and RNM zaps are applied. Many other products display a list of zaps in started task output. I would like some f...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Planned

Switch protection log at ET SYNC of ADASAV on-line SAVE.

Many sites do a FEOFPLjust afteran ADASAVSAVEon-line backup has ended. This makes me wonder if they think they then only need the newprotection log during a recovery.To correct such misunderstandings please allow the specification of a FEOFPL para...
Bjarne Soerensen over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Utilities 0 Planned
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