These Release Notes provide an overview on all changes for Entire System Server 3.7.3. The following topics are covered:
Natural add-on products are no longer delivered for the z/VSE and BS2000 operating systems. Software AG makes an exception for BS2000 customers who are using the ESM Adapter. For that reason, this documentation and its respective software still mention the deprecated operating systems.
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Licence Handling for Entire System Server is now compliant with Software GmbH's company-wide license policy.
For details, check section Software AG Mainframe Product Licensing.
Before you can install Entire System Server, the following Software GmbH products must already be installed at your site:
Natural version 9.2 or above;
Adabas version 8.5.4 or above;
Entire System Server Interface (provided with Natural);
Natural ISPF Version 9.2 or above (optional);
Predict Version 8.5.2 or above (optional).
Entire System Server Services are available in any Natural environment that runs z/OS Version 2.5 or above.
Software GmbH 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 GmbH cannot continue to support operating system versions that are no longer supported by the system's provider.
This section describes new Entire System Server Features. It covers the following topics:
The following new features have been implemented:
| NPRMF-1549 | WRITE-FILE - reset ISPF statistical data (using new option DEL of field STATS). |
| ES-33335 | ACTIVE-JOBS - get zIIP times of any address space (zIIP normalized enclave time, eligible zIIP time on GP). |
| NPRMF-1525 | SEND-EMAIL - use email address from field REPLY-TO as value. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| WRITE-FILE | STATS | New value DEL. |
This section describes solved problems for Entire System Server 3.7.3
| Problem | Short Description |
|---|---|
| NPRMF-1539 | Enqueued data set can be deleted. |
| NPRMF-1487 | UNIT-ATTRIBUTES shows wrong values for EAV disks. |
| NPRMF-1492 | Memory leak ( ACEEs ) when using exit routine LOGVRACF. |
| NPRMF-1462 | IDCAMS command gets truncated when issued from Natural. |
| NPRMF-1494 | Lowercase characters not accepted in the FORM field. |
| NPRMF-1529 | S0C9 in XCOMV029 (on the divide instruction used to calculate ECPU-USED). |
| NPRMF-1463 | SHUTDOWN-MAX-DELAY parameter not handled properly. |
| NPRMF-1510 | Terminating ESS due to SYNCTIME leads to S0C4. |
| NPRMF-1540 | If LRECL > 5973, some characters from previous line are copied over. |
| NPRMF-1556 | SYSTEM-COMMAND abends with with S0C4 reason code 10. |
| NPRMF-1571 | SYSTEM-COMMAND displays only 1 line of output. |
| NPRMF-1548 | Stats field SIZE is incorrectly set when UPDATE-INPLACE used. |
| NPRMF-1562 | READ-SPOOL does not work after applying TOP SECRET fixes. |
| NPRMF-1570 | UNIX-DIRECTORY for a large directory may skip elements. |
| NPRMF-1573 | READ-UNIX-FILE view does not accept file or path length > 40 chars. |
