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Cincom SUPRA®
DATA SHEET
Cincom continues to enhance its
SUPRA Server PDM for the
Mainframe database management
product to provide easier database
administration, improved
operational efficiencies and greater
access flexibility.
SUPRA® Server PDM
for the Mainframe
Effectively managing access to your data
With SUPRA Server Physical Data
Manager (PDM), you can:
• easily access the server DBMS
from multiple clients in the same
machine or via TCP/IP from other
client machines.
• ensure high reliability and high
performance for mission-critical
applications running on your
major environments.
• reduce the overhead required to
move data from DASD to
memory to applications.
• enable faster online processing
with enhanced CICS
performance.
Additional PDM performance
tools
Performance enhancing tools are
also available for PDM users.
Included in these tools is the
SUPRA Server PDM Windows Client
designed to simplify Client/Server
PC access to your PDM data. Also,
included are the Windows Utilities,
which consist of the LKxxEDIT
Utility and a PDM database
monitor. The LKxxEDIT Utility allows
you to both display and update
related dataset linkpath chains, in
order to correct ICHN errors. The
SUPRA PDM Monitor enables you
to monitor your PDM database
using a true windows-based,
graphical interface.
Release 2.7.00 offers major new features
• Batch time cut in half
• Faster online processing
• Easier upgrades
• Easier documentation access
• And more ...
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information about these and other
tools.
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Release 2.7.00 features
And more...
• The CSTXOPRM macro has been changed as follows:
Batch time cut in half
– The IMMEDRS= parameter has been removed.
The time it takes to complete batch processes has been
significantly reduced. SUPRA’s Read-Ahead Buffering
retrieves multiple records for each serial read operation
from requesting STMT interfaces. The buffering facility is
aimed at applications that read many records in a file
before finding the record desired. It reduces the overhead
required to move data from DASD to memory to
applications. Internal performance testing shows buffering
functions are completed in half the time that it takes
without the feature in effect.
– The MBLOC=, MBSIZE=, and INFOPRE= options have
been added.
Easier upgrades
With the PDM Options Module, all the custom fixes ever
entered for SUPRA PDM have been added to the source
code. You simply select the options you want turned on
and the optional processing is automatically enabled.
Easy, fast and hassle free.
Faster online processing
SUPRA Server PDM Release 2.7.00 includes an updated
and improved Transaction Server (CICS) interface for ESA.
Easier documentation access
All documentation is now available on CD-ROM.
– The default for the parameter OCPTRTM= has been
changed.
• PDM information transactions have been added.
• The CSTXGNIT sample program is included for security
system time-out exits.
• The automatic disconnect force= default has been
changed from AUTO to SINF.
Product overview
Features of SUPRA Server PDM
SUPRA Server PDM maintains data and coordinates
database access, processes requests from tools and
precompiled programs and provides backup and recovery
tools. SUPRA Server PDM provides a great deal of control
over data storage options and is designed for high-volume,
online transaction processing.
SUPRA Server with PDM support provides the following
features:
SUPRA Server PDM provides a variety of optional tools
and functions that let you tailor SUPRA Server to your
needs and environment. These tools and functions include
the following:
DBA utilities – Tools to organize and maintain data in an
efficient, flexible manner. You execute most DBA utilities
by coding Utility Command Language (UCL) program
input.
MANTIS® – Cincom’s completely interactive development
system provides a rich set of tools for rapid application
development, testing and implementation.
AD/Advantage® – Automates development activities in
each phase of the application life cycle to provide a true
foundation for rapid application development.
SUPRA Server RDM – Permits relational access to SUPRA
data via a 4-verb vocabulary (Get, Insert, Update, Delete)
and DBA-defined data views. Cincom’s RDML (relational
data management language) is the tool used to access
SUPRA data from user applications.
Direct VSAM support – An application that allows SUPRA
Server component access to VSAM KSDS/ESDS files
through RDM.
Pre-compilers – Allow you to embed RDML statements
within application programs. SUPRA Server provides precompilers for COBOL and PL/I.
Windows client support – Allows quick access to SUPRA
PDM data for Windows applications, without heavy
investments in training and new middleware. Using your
PDML expertise and PC client support, your staff can
create new applications and migrate them to the PC, as
well as write graphical user interface tools and utilities for
PCs.
• Multiple file-type support. The PDM supports the
following types of files:
– Data files (primary and related, including Directory
files) that contain user data and Directory information.
– Index files that are optional and contain pointers to
data file records and secondary key definitions.
– System files that are optional and are for recording
statistics, task level recovery, and system level recovery
information.
• Active schema (database) maintainability. You can
perform maintenance on entities in an active schema, or
database using Directory Maintenance and DBA utilities.
• Storage optimization. The PDM uses experience tables,
record blocking, and file buffering to manage and
optimize storage space.
• Recoverability. After a failure, you can use task level
recovery and/or system level recovery to recover the
database. The task log ensures that the PDM saves
enough information for all tasks and transactions to
perform task level recovery. The system log allows
recovery if the task log file is unreadable or unusable, or
if an updated data file is unreadable and must be
reloaded.
• Data accessibility. You can access files in four different
ways:
– Directly by primary key.
– Directly or sequentially by secondary key.
– Sequentially (forward or backward).
– For read-only access to secondary key data.
Business Intelligence for SUPRA
Supported platforms for 2.7.00
Business Intelligence for SUPRA provides an integrated set
of data access, ETL/data warehousing and multidimensional analytics packages that enable you to
transform volumes of SUPRA PDM data into analytic
information.
Multi-dimensional analysis allows you to quickly reveal
business performance and trends so you can make better
business decisions, which ultimately results in better
products, better service, and happier customers with
increased sales and profits.
Business Intelligence for
SUPRA
Analytics for
SUPRA
Multidimensional
Analysis
Data Warehouse for
SUPRA
Historical &
cleansed
data
Data Access for
SUPRA
Direct SQL
Access
PRA
SUPRA
Please see the following Solution Overviews for more
information on each of the three packages.
• Data Access for SUPRA (DB060822-2)
• Data Warehouse for SUPRA (DB060822-3)
• Analytics for SUPRA (DB060822-4)
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