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NSC: Allow / Disallow modules in steplib

If a Natural module exists in a library AND one of its steplibs, it should be possible to DISALLOW the module in the library and ALLOW it in the steplib (or vice versa).
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Not in Plan

NAT: Numeric target operands in SEPARATE statement desired

Unfortunately it is not possible with the SEPARATE statement to assign numeric values directly to numeric target fields. Message: NAT0240 Operand format invalid. Format A, B or U expected. So, sometimes laborious redefinitions are necessary. It wo...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Message if REPLICATION gets turned on/off for a file

When working with the Event Replicator for Adabas you can turn replication on and of for certain Adabas files. A change of the status of the file is logged in the checkpoint file of the database. However, there's no message in DDPRINT, Job-Output ...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) / Security 0 Future consideration

IP-Address in ADABAS REVIEW

For any 24/7 service-oriented organization that relies heavily on REVIEW Logs for monitoring/statistical purposes, a search is made to identify transactions generating errors/loops. But we are unable to find the IP-address of the source. Although,...
Arun Thomas Abraham over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 Future consideration

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

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
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