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Support server names and userid’s longer than 8 characters in display

Customer got Windows server names longer than 8 characters and in many cases they only differ beyond the 8th character. Also user id’s longer than 8 characters may be used. This makes it impossible to distinguish between the sessions in displays...
Mogens Lundqvist over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Planned

Descriptor Value in Message of Rsp. 198

In case of a Rsp. 198 (Unique descriptor insert failed) you get the name of the descriptor name in the corresponding message. However, the descriptor value causing the response code is notshown. If case of certain batch jobs it might cause quite a...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Planned

adavfy on LUW

add Timestamp to output: %ADAVFY-I-INDSTR, Index verification %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, NI: used: 210, free: 1773, reusage: 17, lost: 0 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, UI: used: 1, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost: 1 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, MI: used: 9, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost:...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

ADAMUP to read mainframe unload dataset.

Allow ADAMUP to read a mainframe load dataset - saving the time to decompress and compress. The FDT of the load dataset should be compared to the DB FDT before start. For rehostings - this would shorten the time needed for go-live and reduce MF pr...
Bjarne Soerensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting / Usability 2 Under Review

Adabas REST Administration - install consistency with other Adabas products

Adabas REST Administration uses several non-standard approaches for installation - directory names, location of start/stop routines, naming, etc. One example is the name of the systemd (systemctl) service daemon - it defaults to "adarest_1", when ...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Under Review

Incorporate Adabas REST Services into "change_adadatadir.sh" Script of Adabas-Installation

Currently the config.xml of the Adabas REST Administration is not updated, when "change_adadatadir.sh" is run. As a result, the Adabas-Manager does not show any Databases anymore. Add new functionality to the script "change_adadatadir.sh" that upd...
Christian Lichtenberg over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Adabas Manager / Usability 0 Planned

adarep output in xml format on Linux

adarep on Linux should provide the feature of giving the output in xml format, like the mainframe version does with parameter output=xml. This should be in an Adabas version independent manner as far as possible. We would like to analyse the adaba...
Andreas Heitzer over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Under Review

[RBAC] Improve logging options

I/O to NUCADT.LOG can cause issues - there is nothing configured to manage the logs, so they just grow endlessly. logrotate and cron renames were suggested, but the writing of the log files seems unreliable - ACINVERR errors and log records writte...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security / Usability 0 Under development

[RBAC] database level file permissions

It would be helpful to be able to provide permissions for all files in a database (update for dba roles, read for auditors, for example) rather than having to enumerate every permission for every file for each applicable role - something like: gra...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration

[RBAC] Option to log using server timezone rather than UTC

Please update the logging for Adabas RBAC to use the server's timezone rather than UTC. It makes it confusing to compare logs across products when they use different timezones.
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration