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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 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

AEZ Support for Quantum Safe Algorithms

In 2022 the NIST published the first 4 quantum resistant Algorithms. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms and in Aug 2023 announced 3 of these are expected to be ready i...
Neil Quigley about 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

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

Change misleading messages for SLOGging.

The messages "ADAFRX SLOG turned on for destination dest-name" and "ADAFRY SLOG turned off for destination dest-name" are misleading. They indicate that the SLOG parameter has been turned on or off - which would impact the replication consistency....
Bjarne Soerensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

Improve safety of Restart / Refresh options for ART Administrator

Presently the icon used for Restart of the Target Adapter looks the same as a "Refresh" icon. It is quite easy to accidentally click the icon causing an unwanted restart when the intention was to refresh the tree display. Some alternatives I can t...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Target Adapter (ART) 0 New

Better Options For MS SQL Server Loader (bcp)

This is in the context of replicating data from a mainframe Adabas to a MS SQL Server under Windows. For a huge amount of data in source files Initial State processing can get done with ADARIS and a loader, bcp (Bulk Copy Program) as a MS SQL Serv...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Target Adapter (ART) 0 Under Review

Allow user-defined name for target structure.

If a GFB is generated from PREDICT for SAGTARG destination - the target structure name will be that of the imported structure - like "ADDRESS-U". If you want to change the target structure name to EG "ADDR" - you have to change it with the Data Ma...
Bjarne Soerensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New