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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 Soerensen 10 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

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 Soerensen 10 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / 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 11 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 New

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

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

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 almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

Deactivate subscription on ADAF7F to avoid inconsistent target.

The message ADAF7F is issued when a response code comes from the decompression of a record. Such errors can be sporadic in the case of rsp 42/2 caused by a too small LFP. As a result - sporadically - changed records are not replicated. This causin...
Bjarne Soerensen 12 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

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 about 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New

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