This document covers the following topics:
This section describes the new features, enhancements and corrections that apply to the Version 1.5.2 of the Entire Transaction Propagator Interface for CICS (ETC):
Error Corrections:
ETC Version 1.5.2 contains all Zaps applied to ETC Version 1.5.1 as
error corrections.
Database IDs:
ETC now supports DBIDs in the range of 1 to 65535. However, the value
of 255 remains excluded.
Databases Defined in ETCPARM:
The number of databases that can be defined in the parameter module
ETCPARM has been increased to 512.
PUSERTO Defined in ETCPARM:
The maximum value for the timeout of a PUSER slot has
been increased to 570. The default value for this parameter has been changed to
30.
New Product Documentation Medium:
The following changes and enhancements apply to the ETP product
documentation:
The ETP product documention is supplied online on CD-ROM as it is common practice for all Natural products.
Hardcopies of the documentation can be printed out from the PDF files that come with the documentation.
For information about online documention usage, see Documentation-Related Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Natural CD-ROM overview page.
With the next major release of ETC (following Version 1.5), the support of the following features will be discontinued:
Format buffer optimization (enabled by the parameter
FBOPT in the ETCPARM macro).
Adabas Support for SAP R/2 Application (enabled by the parameter
SAP in the ETCPARM macro).
Entire Transaction Propagator Interface for CICS (ETC) Version 1.5.2 requires that Entire Transaction Propagator (ETP) Version 1.5.2 and Natural Version 4.2 is installed.
The prerequisite operating/teleprocessing systems and required versions of other Software AG products are to be found in the current Natural Release Notes.
The Entire Transaction Propagator Interface for CICS (ETC) cannot be used to log Adabas database transactions issued by the Natural Development Server CICS Adapter.
