Version 8.2.5

Release Notes

Adabas Online System (AOS) is an interactive, menu-driven analysis and control facility for Adabas and the related environment. A database administrator (DBA) uses it to manage your Adabas database and the users of the database.

Adabas Online System is a selectable unit to Adabas customers who have exercised a separate purchase agreement for this feature. A demonstration version is included with Adabas and is documented in the Adabas DBA Tasks Manual.

This document provides release notes for the Adabas Online System 8.2 release. It is organized as follows:


Prerequisites

Adabas Online System (AOS) supports back-level versions of Adabas. However, Adabas 8.2 is a prerequisite for this version of AOS if you want to use AOS to manage any new features provided in Adabas 8.2.

For information regarding Software AG product compatibility with IBM platforms and any IBM requirements for Software AG products, please review the Product Compatibility for IBM Platforms web page.

For additional information about installation requirements, read Installation Requirements.

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Enhancements for 8.2

The following sections describe the enhancements made to Adabas Online System (AOS) in this release.

Enhancements for 8.2.5

Maintenance changes only were made for this release.

Enhancements for 8.2.4

Maintenance changes only were made for this release.

Enhancements for 8.2.3

Maintenance changes only were made for this release.

Enhancements for 8.2.2

This release of Adabas Online System(AOS) supports the new features of Adabas 8.2.2:

For complete information about all of these new features supported by Adabas Online System, refer to your Adabas 8.2.2 documentation.

Enhancements for 8.2.1

This release of Adabas Online System(AOS) supports the new features of Adabas 8.2.1:

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Dropped Features

Use of the In Parallel option when adding fields to the FDT is no longer supported.

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End of Maintenance

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Documentation

The documentation for this product has been updated for this release. When additional updated versions of the documentation are created, you can review them on the Software AG documentation web site: http://documentation.softwareag.com/. The documentation at this site will be updated as required. If you have a maintenance contract, past versions of documentation can be reviewed by linking to the following Empower web site: https://empower.softwareag.com. If you do not have an Empower user ID and password yet, you will find instructions for registering on this site (free for customers with maintenance contracts).

The Adabas Online System documentation includes:

No hard-copy documentation is provided, but you can print the PDF and HTML files on your local printer.

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