Adabas Fastpath 8.2 project watch

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Hi,

I am responsible for Adabas Fastpath in Software AG R&D. Similar to the other client-based products, I thought it would be interesting to tell you the things we are working on in the next wave. Here’s a few words on the main things…

  1. Eliminate ECSA usage.
    Use of ECSA memory has come under increasing pressure as a scarce resource in recent years. Today, Fastpath uses ECSA (shared memory) to support its direct-access cache (buffer). We will change this to alternate memory usage thereby alleviating the pressure on ECSA.

  2. File level history.
    Until now, Fastpath’s history statistics have been at the system level. We will allow file level statistics to be recorded in the history data too.

  3. Client job history.
    Until now, Fastpath has recorded statistics per client job as messages within the Fastpath cache (buffer) manager. We will now allow rolling statistics to be written to the configuration file for each job.

  4. Online administration (SYSATM) - security
    Allow functions to be secured in RACF (etc), this requires Adabas SAF Security to be installed.

  5. Crash-recoverable DTR
    Dynamic transaction routing systems (such as CICS/MRO, CICS/plex, etc) are able to be resilient in cases of component outage, automatically routing existing sessions to remaining components. Support for these types of systems will be introduced.

  6. Singe-seat administration.
    All client sessions in all client jobs across multiple systems to be monitored from a single online session.

  7. System-wide newcopy - along with other client-based products.
    Allow the administrator to stimulate dynamic re-load of the main kernel of the product to allow maintenance fixes to be adopted 24*7. This is in line with similar facilities in Fastpath, the facilities will become integrated.

  8. Common tracing
    The ability to trace individual client Adabas command activity with information about Vista processing for translation/partitioning. This is in line with similar facilities in Fastpath (etc), integrated.

  9. APIs
    The will be a further evolution of APIs to allow manipulation of Vista configuration (IMPORT/EXPORT) so that configuration can be manipulated programmatically - and therefore copied from file to file etc. Also, further APIs to provide more statistical runtime information.

There are plenty more changes of a smaller nature. I hope you find this information useful.

Best regards,

Mike

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Hi Mike.

We had serious problems because of CICS threadsafe not being supported by COR812. I understand this will be a part of COR82.
When will this version be available?

I think you have to work a lot on documentation. The installation really needs to be described in much more detail.

Regards
Svend Spanget, CSC Denmark

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Hello Svend,

Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been away from the office…

You are correct that CICS threadsafe support for Adabas System Coordinator is an 8.2 project item. However, in recent weeks we have had several customers (including yourself) contact us about this support being needed sooner. Therefore we have decided to introduce support for CICS threadsafe as fixes to COR 8.1.2, we are working on it right now. I estimate something will be available for you to test in mid-January but you will get more accurate information from Support nearer the time.

Hopefully this helps.

Best regards,

Mike

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Hello Svend,

Sorry for the delay in replying, I have been away from the office…

You are correct that CICS threadsafe support for Adabas System Coordinator is an 8.2 project item. However, in recent weeks we have had several customers (including yourself) contact us about this support being needed sooner. Therefore we have decided to introduce support for CICS threadsafe as fixes to COR 8.1.2, we are working on it right now. I estimate something will be available for you to test in mid-January but you will get more accurate information from Support nearer the time.

Hopefully this helps.

Best regards,

Mike