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Status Released
Categories Adabas (ADA-Linux)
Created by Hezi Shirazi
Created on Aug 27, 2023

Add ADAFRM parameters to ADABAS.INI

We would like to have ADAFRM parameters in ADABAS.INI.
In our site we run automatic procedures for creating new servers.
This procedures include build new databases on the new servers.
If ADABAS.INI will have defaults for ADAFRM it will save us lots of time.
To be more precise the best will be to have general defaults for any new database and in the DB_LIST section, the defaults for every DBID that is defined there.
(Different DBIDs may have different container sizes, DB names …)

However, when ADAFRM runs, it will take the parameters that were defined for this run, and only take the defaults from ADABAS.INI when a parameter was not defined to ADAFRM.

  • Hezi Shirazi
    May 6, 2026

    Shalom

    I will describe the way we install new db:

    1. we set a file for adafrm with the variables: dbid, name, assoblk, datablks, workblks, assosize, datasize, worksize, sortsize and tempsize

    2. then we run script adafrm to build our new db instance

    Can I set it better, and can I get a session (teams) maybe to improve our adabas.ini settings?

    Adabas.Ini is a common ini file, that set a common variables for db isntaces on same server, am I right?

  • Admin
    Jürgen Lind
    May 6, 2026

    Shalom Hezi!
    Yom tov!

    Ma nishma?

    What you want to achieve, seems already to exist.
    This is what RnD is answering:
    ---

    This is already available:
    https://documentation.softwareag.com/adaos/7.4.0/en/webhelp/adaos-webhelp/extendop/config.htm#fcf


    # configuration # recommended values

    [DB_DEFAULTS]
    ...
    [NUCPARMS]
    ...
    [NUCPARMS-END]
    ...
    [DB_PARAMETER]
    ...
    [DB_PARAMETER-END]
    ...
    [ENVIRONMENT]
    ...
    [ENVIRONMENT-END]
    ...
    [DB_DEFAULTS-END]


    ---



    I hope this is a good answer for you!

    Lehitraot,
    Jürgen