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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 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / 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 4 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 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

adavfy on LUW

add Timestamp to output: %ADAVFY-I-INDSTR, Index verification %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, NI: used: 210, free: 1773, reusage: 17, lost: 0 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, UI: used: 1, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost: 1 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, MI: used: 9, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost:...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

Allow time range for REVIEW functions

Viewing History allows both date & time ranges, but compressing or deleting history has no time range option. I planned an hourly job using REVIEWB HISTORY to send the most recent hour of a large report to GDG, then DELHIST to delete that hour...
Daniel Geary almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New

Allow wildcard notation “?” inside input edit mask for MOVE EDITED

With the MOVE EDITED statement you can apply an edit mask for Operand1 to output a field of any format (except H/C) into an alpha string (A/U/B) with a specific layout described by the edit mask. The edit mask can be considered as an output edit m...
Thomas Frischmann over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

Allow (CV=) after a literal string

Natural allows the use of dynamic control variables during INPUT and WRITE. BUT: the use of those (CV=<control_variable>) is restricted to a variable, not to a literal text. If you want to have a different visual behavior for a string, you m...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Collapse on IF, ELSE and VALUE (DECIDE)

When you collapse an IF-Statement, the ELSE is collapsed, too. This at first glance, looks like the code of the ELSE is the code of the IF itself. When you collapse a DECIDE Statement, the whole Decide-Structure is collapsed, which is fine. If you...
Michael Greven over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

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 Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

Feature to shut down REPTOR waiting first for all source nuclei to disconnect

Issuing ADAEND to a REPTOR should not be done before the connected source nuclei have ended. When shutting down a production environment (typically before an IPL) - you can automate that the source nuclei (EG DB1,DB2,DB3) tasks have ended before A...
Bjarne Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Under Review