Entire System Server 3.7.1 Release Notes

These Release Notes provide an overview on all changes for Entire System Server 3.7.1. The following topics are covered:

Support of Previous Versions

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Prerequisites

Before you can install Entire System Server, the following Software AG products must already be installed at your site:

  • Natural version 8.2.7 or above;

  • Adabas version 8.4.2 or above;

  • Entire System Server Interface (provided with Natural);

  • Entire Net-Work Version 6.4.1 or above (optional, for multi-CPU Support);

  • Natural ISPF Version 8.2.7 or above (optional);

  • Predict Version 8.4.2 or above (optional).

Entire System Server Services are available in any Natural environment that runs any or a combination of the following operating systems:

  • z/OS Version 2.3 or above;

  • BS2000 Version 10 or above.

Notes:

  • Software AG provides Entire System Server support for the operating system versions supported by their respective manufacturers. Generally, when an operating system provider stops supporting a version of an operating system, Software AG will stop supporting that operating system version.

  • Although it may be technically possible to run a new version of Entire System Server on an old operating system, Software AG cannot continue to support operating system versions that are no longer supported by the system's provider.

Enhancements

This section describes new Entire System Server Features. It covers the following topics:

New Features

The following new features have been implemented:

ES 27212 Provide access to the z/OS UNIX file-system. Customers were asking to access in z/OS the z/OS UNIX file system within NATURAL applications. NATURAL itself provides this in TSO or batchjobs but not in online monitors such as CICS, IMS or Com-plete. There are 3 new views WRITE-UNIX-FILE, READ-UNIX-FILE and UNIX-DIRECTORY. A fully qualified path name must be provided to locate the file to be read, written or listed. See View Description or Access to z/OS UNIX Filesfor more details.
EF-3661 WRITE-FILE - write ISPF statistics entry, see new field STATS in View Descriptions.
EF-2936 Support emergency keys with mainframe products.
NPRMF-1420 SEND-EMAIL - file attachment: Set extension of attachments e.g. html, php, txt or others.
NPRMF-1383 HOST-CODE-PAGE - parameter definition in SEND-EMAIL function for Hebrew code page CP424.
NPRMF-1360 Allow up to 50 SUB-COMMANDS in view SYSTEM-COMMAND. This has been done to allow FTP sessions with a large amount of FTP commands.
NPRMF-1434 For view FILE-ATTRIBUTE option SHORT-INFO was introduced. This enables calling file attributes also for PDS data sets without RACF read access.
EF-3699 (NPRMF-1419) For view FILE-ATTRIBUTE parameter NUM-OF-BACKUP-VERS on BS2000.
NPRMF-1422 Run privileged code also on x86 server under BS2000.

Changed and New Fields

The following table summarizes fields that have been added, changed or deleted in an existing view. Please refer to the respective view in View Descriptions in the User's Guide documentation.

View Field Change
ATTACHMENT-SUFFIX SEND-EMAIL New.
FILE-ATTRIBUTE SHORT-INFO New.
  NUM-OF-BACKUP-VERS New.
WRITE-FILE STATS New.

Solved Problems

This section describes solved problems for Entire System Server 3.6.3.

Solved Problems for z/OS

Problem Short Description
NPRMF- 1388 Avoid undesired messages ICH408I for JESSPOOL protected resources.
NPRMF- 1390 LOAD-MODULE may return incorrect CSECT-OFFSET.
NPRMF- 1395 Incorrect userid in ESYTRACE entry after LOGOFF.
NPRMF- 1396 Internal trace utility output contains invalid characters.
NPRMF- 1397 Attributes missing for non-primary generations of PDSE program objects.
NPRMF- 1400 hang at startup with wrong parameter.
NPRMF- 1401 Truncated SYSOUT using DCB with LRECL GT 1000.
NPRMF- 1111 Error 5712 Request to Common JES Interface failed.
NPRMF- 1387 Entire System server shutdown 6 o clock every morning.
NPRMF- 1415 NPR abends when MSU exceeds value specified in license key.
NPRMF- 1416 SAT1851 SATBS6-N Line 4760 Error NAT0954.
NPRMF- 1418 Read VTOC - max. 362 freespace extents displayed.
NPRMF-1423 Abend 0C4 in XCOMV002 offset 2D66 using READ-FILE.