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A note concerning the behaviour of the keywords QUIT and EXIT in conjunction with the keyword LOWER_CASE_FIELD_NAMES has been added to Using Utilities, Terminating a Utility.
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The documentation for the UNIX tool showgdt has been removed.
The description of the keyword SESSIONID for the definition option Sytem Generated (SY) has been revised and augmented.
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The default translation tables used by Adabas have been added to Appendix A.
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A table that explains the information returned in the 'S' element has been added to the section Calling Adabas, Format and Record Buffer, Format Buffer Syntax.
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The explanation of the element name
L[mu_pe_index] in the section Calling Adabas, Format
and Record Buffer, Format Buffer Syntax has been updated.
The descriptions of the control block fields ACBCID and ACBXCID in the section Adabas Control Block Structures have been extended to include details of blank command IDs in both ASCII and EBCDIC.
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The descriptions of the search buffers for the L3/L6 and L9 commands have been rewritten and moved to the section Search and Value Buffers. The original descriptions of the search buffers have been removed from the individual commands.
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The information about the Command ID field in the control block of the RC command has been corrected from "-/A" to "F/U".
A note has been added to the section Concepts and Facilities, User Types, Access-only user in order to clarify the restrictions that apply to this type of user.
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In the section Search Buffer Syntax (Using Soft Coupling), the description of sfield has been been changed and augmented.
Starting with Version 6.2, Adabas only supported SUSE 11, the installation documentation has been changed to remove references to SUSE 10.
The software prerequisites for installing Adabas on UNIX and Windows platforms has been updated. HP-UX v2, AIX 5.3 and Solaris 9 are no longer supported.
The new message DSTNLS has been added.
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The new message ALLERROVFL has been added.
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The new message IOT has been added.
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The new message IOTRES has been added.
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The new message LABLINV has been added.
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The new message RAWCORRUP has been added.
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The new message SHMNOA has been added.
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Subcodes 38, 39, 40, 41and 42 have been added to the nucleus response code 22. The explanation of subcode 37 has been changed.
An new reason (missing last-update-timestamp system generated field) has been added to the nucleus response code 44. Information about subcodes (and their meanings) for response code 44 has also been added to the description.
A new note has been added to the description of the ADACMP parameter DST.
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A new note has been added to the description of the ADADCU parameter DST.
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New notes explaining the locking of non-existent file numbers and of LOB files have been added to the ADAOPR parameter LOCK.
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