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Status Under Review
Categories Adabas (ADA-Linux)
Created by Hezi Shirazi
Created on Apr 3, 2024

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi,

I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:
1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete)

2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was modified (even when an update was performed & not just insert or delete)

  • Admin
    Jürgen Lind
    Aug 8, 2025

    Boker tov, Anat! Shalom!

    Sorry, but our answer came a bit too fast.

    As Heiko said, we implemented Question/Part 1 of the request in ADA-Linux.
    We will not implement Question/Part2 due to

    • effort reasons

    • additional performance impact

    Heiko and I can only talk for ADA-Linux and we still have the talk to NAT-Linux on our todo list.
    However, we cannot promise anything for NAT-Linux, w/o discussing with NAT first.

    But we understand you want to access the information from a NAT variable.
    Correct?

    Pls. be a bit patient.

    Toda!

    Cheers,
    Jürgen

  • Anat Devir
    Aug 7, 2025

    (The customer gets an error when adding a comment, therefore I do it for him)
    From the customer:
    It is very nice to have that variable.

    Please pay attention, to my request, to be able to get it from an application.

    Furthermore, I asked to get on each fnr & key its own timestamp

  • Heiko Kaffenberger
    Aug 7, 2025

    With the ADABAS Version 7.4 (release in Oct 2025) we store in the FCB a timestamp of the last (insert/update/delete). You can see this timestamp with adarep file=xxx. But before this must be activated with the ADANUC OPTION=FILE_UPDATE, only a nucleus started with this option stores the timestamp in the FCB.

    Question 2.: This is as well not possible on ADABAS for z/OS.