TREETIP: TRIM’s Real-Time Monitor Provides a Window into Your Adabas/Natural World

by Joseph Brady, Manager of Marketing and Technical Documentation at Treehouse Software, Inc.

Adabas/Natural customers need a reliable, effective, and efficient way to analyze and optimize performance. TRIM is a robust performance monitor for Adabas and Natural. The TRIM Real-Time Monitor provides a wealth of key performance statistics, including:

  • Adabas activity in various categories across time intervals
  • Session statistics
  • Adabas queues and tables
  • And much more.

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TRIM Real-time Monitor Commands Per Minute Screen:

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TRIM Real-time Monitor Commands Within File Screen:

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This information can help the site quickly find and eliminate performance problems, and online help, PF-Keys, Direct Commands, and other features simplify TRIM usage.

Reminder of the Special Offer For CA APAS/Insight and CA PLEU Customers…

If your company uses CA APAS/Insight and/or CA PLEU, you have been notified that support for the products is longer be provided by CA. As a result, we are pleased to extend a special offer to CA APAS/Insight and CA PLEU customers to adopt comparable Treehouse Software solutions, and enjoy the assurance of our commitment to supporting and updating TRIM, AUDITRE, NatCDCSP, NatQuery, and our other solutions that complement ADABAS and NATURAL.

Treehouse Software representatives are ready to help you implement our solutions to address your key requirements — all at specially-discounted pricing.

Visit the Treehouse Software website, or contact us to discuss your needs.

A Job Well-Done by Treehouse Software Consulting Services for Swiss Reinsurance Company, Ltd.

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Since 2002, Treehouse Software consultants have provided DBA services for the Software AG (SAG) mainframe environment at Swiss Reinsurance Company, Ltd. (Swiss Re). Treehouse services included all SAG product support and upgrades for ADABAS, NATURAL, NATURAL Security, PREDICT, and COM-PLETE.

Additionally, Treehouse consultants installed the TRIM ADABAS and NATURAL Performance Monitor product to help in monitoring ADABAS and NATURAL usage, and the tRelational / DPS product set was used for converting and archiving Swiss Re’s ADABAS data as the new Oracle-based systems were implemented.

As this chapter of the long-time Treehouse Software / Swiss Re partnership has drawn to a close, we express our gratitude for having such a good and loyal customer, and we appreciate their sentiments towards us:

“Thank you for your professional and prompt DBA and support services to Swiss Re for the last many years. You have kept our systems on the most current level of software upgrades, helped us to successfully migrate our mainframe from in-house facilities to an outside provider, as well as migrate from the Toronto system to a global platform-based L&H system, and finally provided archival data extracts for the total decommissioning of the Toronto system.

At all stages we have received excellent and cost-effective services from Treehouse.

We sincerely thank each one of you for helping us achieve our goals. Best wishes for the future.”

Sheila Gupta
Vice President, Information Technology
Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.


About Treehouse Software Consulting Services

At Treehouse Software, our business is mainframe systems software and services. We know that organizations using mainframe systems for their business operations are feeling the pressure to be more efficient and to contribute to overall enterprise cost savings, and we’re here to help.

Customers can take advantage of Treehouse’s decades of experience in mainframe optimization, systems security, control, auditing, performance enhancement, etc. Our Mainframe Consulting and Remote DBA Services can be a life-saver when dwindling financial and human resources make it difficult to maintain past levels of IT services for an organization.

Treehouse Software’s expert consultants can provide ADABAS/NATURAL performance analysis, environment tuning, and optimization; development, training and implementation services involving any Software AG technology; help with special routines or user exits for ADABAS/NATURAL; product installation, upgrades, and training; data transfer and integration; and DBA services.

Contact Treehouse Software for more information on our Consulting Services.

New Version of AUDITRE Further Enhances Ease of Transitioning from CA PLEU

If your company uses CA PLEU and/or CA APAS/Insight, you know that these products have reached “End of Service”, and support for the products will no longer be provided by CA.

Many customers have turned to Treehouse Software for our proven and reliable ADABAS/NATURAL-oriented alternatives.

As the vendor of the ADABAS performance monitor TRIM since 1983, and the generalized auditing facility for ADABAS AUDITRE since 1987, Treehouse Software understands how important it is to provide customers with new releases and expert technical support as ADABAS and NATURAL continue to advance and evolve.

With the latest release of AUDITRE (v4), we have implemented enhancements that specifically aid in a customer’s transition from CA PLEU, including:

  • Previous releases of AUDITRE limited the total size of the Protection Log Compressed Data Record Fields to be printed to 32K. AUDITRE v4 runs above the line, removing this limit.
  • AUDITRE was updated to allow sites to route detail and summary statistics to a separate file.
  • New analysis parameters allow specification of a begin point (STARTDATE/STARTTIME), which adds additional flexibility to the PLOG extract process.

Additionally, we recently assisted a longtime CA PLEU site in converting their existing CA PLEU extract to an AUDITRE extract, which provided identical results! Contact Treehouse Software for details.

AUDITRE At a Glance…

AUDITRE is Treehouse Software‘s generalized auditing facility for ADABAS, applicable to a wide variety of use cases. Summary reports show the number of adds, deletes, and updates made to specified files and fields, while detail reports can track specific user activity and updating of individual fields and files. Data may be extracted to output datasets for use with reporting, analysis, and other software. As a batch facility processing the ADABAS PLOG, AUDITRE does not require ADABAS to be active in order for reports and extracts to be run.

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It’s Not The End of the Line for CA Customers!

We are pleased to extend a special offer to CA APAS/Insight and CA PLEU customers to adopt comparable Treehouse Software solutions, and enjoy the assurance of our commitment to supporting and updating AUDITRE (as well as TRIM, NatCDCSP, NatQuery, and our other solutions that complement ADABAS and NATURAL).

Treehouse Software representatives are ready to help you implement our solutions to address your key requirements, and at specially-discounted pricing.

Not currently using CA APAS/Insight or CA PLEU? You’re in luck, because we’ll extend our same special pricing offers to you as well!

Contact Treehouse Software for more information.

Will CA’s Sunsetting of APAS/Insight and PLEU Leave You in the Dark?

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by Wayne Lashley, Chief Business Development Officer for Treehouse Software and Joseph Brady, Marketing and Documentation Manager for Treehouse Software

If your company uses CA APAS/Insight and/or CA PLEU, you have been notified that these products have reached “End of Service”. This means that support for the products will no longer be provided by CA.

Many of you will be wondering where to turn now for proven and reliable alternatives. The answer, as is usually the case when it comes to ADABAS/NATURAL-oriented solutions, is Treehouse Software.

As the vendor of the ADABAS performance monitor TRIM since 1983, and of leading PLOG audit/extract products (AUDITRE and NatCDCSP, with its companion product NatQuery), Treehouse Software understands how important it is to provide customers with new releases and expert technical support as ADABAS and NATURAL continue to advance and evolve.

We are pleased to extend a special offer to CA APAS/Insight and CA PLEU customers to adopt comparable Treehouse Software solutions, and enjoy the assurance of our commitment to supporting and updating TRIM, AUDITRE, NatCDCSP, NatQuery, and our other solutions that complement ADABAS and NATURAL.

Treehouse Software representatives are ready to help you implement our solutions to address your key requirements, and at specially-discounted pricing.

Not currently using CA APAS/Insight or CA PLEU? You’re in luck, because we’ll extend our same special pricing offers to you as well!

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Treehouse Products at a Glance

TRIM

ADABAS/NATURAL customers need a reliable, effective, and efficient way to analyze and optimize performance. TRIM is a robust performance monitor for ADABAS and NATURAL. The TRIM Real-Time Monitor provides a wealth of key performance statistics, including:

  • ADABAS activity in various categories across time intervals
  • Session statistics
  • ADABAS queues and tables
  • And much more…

TRIM batch reporting functions can leverage ADABAS PLOG and CLOG data to identify usage hotspots and anomalies, track transactions and gauge utilization trends.

AUDITRE

AUDITRE is Treehouse Software’s generalized auditing facility for ADABAS, applicable to a wide variety of use cases. Summary reports show the number of adds, deletes, and updates made to specified files and fields, while detail reports can track specific user activity and updating of individual fields and files. Data may be extracted to output datasets for use with reporting, analysis, and other software. As a batch facility processing the ADABAS PLOG, AUDITRE does not require ADABAS to be active in order for reports and extracts to be run.

NatCDCSP

NatCDCSP is the NATURAL Change Data Capture answer for ADABAS.  The information contained in the ADABAS PLOG is an ideal Change Data Capture (CDC) source. NatCDCSP leverages the PLOG utilities that Software AG provides with ADABAS, and generates NATURAL programs to handle the output of these utilities for CDC purposes. This approach results in a low-cost, high-performance CDC solution that can be readily applied to ADABAS auditing requirements.

NatQuery

NatQuery is the NATURAL Data Extraction answer for ADABAS. A full GUI tool that has NATURAL data extraction intelligence built in, NatQuery has the automatic ability to quickly “learn” the nuances of your ADABAS source files. As a NATURAL program generator, NatQuery leverages the inherent power of what NATURAL was designed to do, while at the same time removing the need for any in-depth training and/or knowledge of NATURAL, ADABAS or the other intricacies of the environment in which NATURAL and ADABAS reside—be it mainframe or LUW (Linux/Unix/Windows).

Contact Treehouse Software for more information. We look forward to helping you see the light—again.