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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 about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under development

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 over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New

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 11 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 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 about 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 about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 Future consideration

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 about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Online System (AOS) / Usability 0 Under development

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 about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Under Review

ADARES BACKOUT Requirements for DDBACK disk datasets

Please note that our environment having a project goingto start for replacing Virtual Tape Storage medium to Hard Disk Storage medium.We know the following requirements for ADARES BACKOUT:- "The BACKOUT function requires that the read backward fea...
Guest about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability 0 Under development

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 about 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 about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned