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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

AOS: No refresh for UQE - Display

The AOS-screen 'Display User Queue Element' has no possibility to refresh the display. For example: On screen The 'Display User Queue' we have the function-key PF 4 for refresh. We would like to see changes of the fields 'No. of Calls' an 'No. of ...
Reiner Koester over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Online System (AOS) / Usability 0 Under development

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

ADABAS/UNIX Online adaord reorder=* (Linux, HP-UX)

A online ADAORD Reorder=* in our very large production database environment takes more than 15 hrs. This is not useful in a 24*7 production environment. A test with a copy of the database on a other machine shows that a Reorder will free million ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting / Utilities 0 Future consideration

Support server names and userid’s longer than 8 characters in display

Customer got Windows server names longer than 8 characters and in many cases they only differ beyond the 8th character. Also user id’s longer than 8 characters may be used. This makes it impossible to distinguish between the sessions in displays...
Mogens Lundqvist over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Planned

Descriptor Value in Message of Rsp. 198

In case of a Rsp. 198 (Unique descriptor insert failed) you get the name of the descriptor name in the corresponding message. However, the descriptor value causing the response code is notshown. If case of certain batch jobs it might cause quite a...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Planned

Introduce a grace period for the DCOMMITTHRESHOLD.

Introduce a new feature and parameter DCOMMITWAIT which will have the REPTOR not commit messages with less than DCOMMITTHRESHOLD transactions until DCOMMITWAIT milliseconds have passed. While it will introduce a small delay - it will allow greater...
Bjarne Soerensen over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

Enable use of environment variables in “session parameters” in Map of a Natural Server Environment

It would great to be able to use environment variables (e.g. $sys_udv, $sys_tst – further see below) when mapping an environment. Simply include these variables as dynamic parameters when forking the new process from the NDV server. Background To ...
Mogens Lundqvist over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan

Record actions in production environment.

Some sites have a pre-requisite that all work done in the production environment is recorded for auditing purposes. For example, the desktop (and terminal emulator) and keystrokes are recorded on video. This also covered emergency Natural develope...
Bjarne Soerensen almost 2 years ago in NaturalONE / Security 0 Future consideration

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv almost 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review