The Adabas & Natural Health Check provides customers with a no-cost, half to one day remote or onsite review of their Adabas and Natural environment. Software AG experts evaluate the customer's operating environment, Adabas performance, Natural usage, and integration points to identify opportunities for reengagement, modernization, optimization, and preparing for upcoming product upgrades. The health check includes a review of key metrics and configurations to understand resource utilization and pain points for the customer's technical staff.
1. 1_NAM A&N User Group April 2023 Agenda 2
2_Software AG-the connected enterprise 4
3_AN 2050 Innovations April 2023 14
4_A&N Health Check 25
5_Snowflake Overview_Latham 32
5b_Unlock Your mainframe data 45
7_Where to find Training 61
8_Monitor with Adabas Manger 65
9_Accessing RDBMS from Natural 75
10_Adabas Natural in the Cloud 102
11_Natural 9 new features 103
12_Q&A 139
25. Adabas & Natural Health Check
North America User Group Meeting
April 27, 20232 | Virtual
Becky Albin / Senior Director Systems Engineering
Rebecca.albin@softwareag.com
571-297-5276
1
26. Adabas & Natural Health Check
2
No Cost
½ - 1 day
Remote or Onsite
Customer request
Reengagement
Performance
Modernization
Integration
Re-hosting
SAG Product Upgrade
Maintenance
27. 3
A&N Health Check – Overview
Software AG Participants would consist of:
▪ Account Executive
▪ Systems Engineers
Customer Participants could consist of:
− Most anyone… some or all of…
− Executive Management (CIO, CTO, VP, Director, …)
− Technical Staff
• DBA
• Programmers
• IT Architects
• Analysts
− Financial Users
− Business Users
28. 4
A&N Health Check – Sample Agenda
TIME TOPIC
9:00
–
9:30
Introduction
• Kick-off remarks
• Session objectives
• Personal objectives
• Agenda review
• Ground rules, housekeeping
9:30
–
10:00
Operating Environment
• z/OS or Linux info
• CPU utilization / SMF data
• A&N Product Versions
• Open Software Support Incidents
• Common or problem tasks
10:00
–
10:45
Adabas
• ADAREP
• Adabas shutdown statistics
• Backups
• Etc..
30. Adabas & Natural Health Check
Licensed SAG products
▪ Support Dates
▪ Upgrades
▪ Used
▪ Not Used / why not?
A&N based applications
Packaged applications
Integration between A&N and Other ‘Systems’
(SalesForce, PeopleSoft,…)
Pain Points
Adabas & Natural Performance Tips
Strategic Directions/Plans
Disaster Recovery
Cloud
6
Detailed Report delivered within a 2-3 weeks with all
findings and recommendations
45. Unlock legacy data
for the data cloud
A new approach to data integration
Eric Wood, Principal Systems Engineer, Software AG Government Solutions
46. Executives say mainframe-
based applications are central
to their business strategy
71%
Enterprises prefer deploying
data integration in the
cloud over on-premises
2X
Operational data stored on
the Cloud, as cloud adoption
doubles in past 7 yrs
60%
Converging market trends
Demand new approach to data integration
48. Enterprise data sources remains a challenge
Strategic importance of mainframe enterprise data
Easy
Hard
Hardest
49. Challenges with Mainframe Access
EBCDIC
Data Fit to the Application Presentation & Representation
Db2®
50. Current approaches
Do nothing
▪ Data perceived as too hard to access
▪ Key data is not included in analysis
▪ Business suffers
Custom code & manual pulls
▪ Not scalable, limited accessibility
▪ Constant pipeline management
▪ Require additional governance
Point-to-point integrations
▪ Expensive & complex
▪ Constant pipeline management
▪ Require additional governance
51. Simplify the connected world
A complete iPaaS offering covering all aspects of integration
Integration of
Applications
Integration of
Things
Integration of
Data
Integration of
Processes
=
Liberate data from apps and B2B and
expose them to employees,
customers, and partners.
Capture new data from the physical
world (IoT) and correlate with digital
data streams for new insights
Adapt processes based on new
insights. Align business,
technology and IT.
Unlock data through resilient and repeatable
pipelines that reduce costs and risks of
enterprise-wide data flows.
52. Legacy to Cloud in 3 Steps
Mainframe AS/400 OpenVMS Legacy UNIX and Windows
Adabas, Db2, VSAM,
IMS, IDMS, etc.
SQL Server, FoxPro, Oracle,
Ingres, Micro Focus COBOL, C-ISAM
RPG, Db2, etc. RMS, Oracle RDB,
Oracle Codasyl, etc.
1. Identify Source Data 2. Enable Data Dictionary 3. Configure Pipeline
53. Data Liberation Step 1: Securely connect to many sources
Files
Db2,
IMS DB
IDMS
Adabas
etc.
Databases
VSAM
QSAM
etc.
TRANSLATE
EBCDIC to ASCII
SECURE
Respects and Extends Mainframe Security
Mainframe AS/400 OpenVMS Legacy UNIX and Windows
Adabas, Db2, VSAM,
IMS, IDMS, etc.
SQL Server, FoxPro, Oracle,
Ingres, Micro Focus COBOL, C-ISAM
RPG, Db2, etc. RMS, Oracle RDB,
Oracle Codasyl, etc.
CONNECT
RACF and SSL encryption
Mainframe Data
Collector Server
54. Data Liberation Step 2: View, Explore, Move
Leverage data virtualization to explore data in relational format with SQL
Data Virtualization
Batch
Data Pipelines
CDC
(change data capture)
Explore
View Move
Mainframe Data
Collector Server
55. Data Liberation Step 3: Shape, Ingest, Monitor
Control Plane Control Hub
Build-Operate-Monitor
70+ predefined data
processors
Data Plane
Mainframe Data
Collector Server
56. DataOps Platform - Single design experience
Access and move VSAM data to Snowflake
57. Data Lakes
Data Warehouses
Object Stores,
Landing Areas
Business
Intelligence
Data Science
AI/ML
{API}
Analytics
Messaging,
Event Hub
Real Time
Apps
Database
{API}
Schema Change
Platform & Version
Change
Consumer Request
Change
Storage Layer Change
Format Change
Semantic Change
Source & API Change
Connection Change
Challenges with IT infrastructure
More Sources, More Platforms, More Patterns, More Consumers
Data
Sources
Data
Consumers
data drift: unexpected, unannounced and unending changes to data structure, infrastructure & semantics
58. Why Software AG for Data Integration?
Modern data integration
Broadest set of
DB coverage
Easy to use, single
design experience
Adaptable data
pipelines
Access more mainframe &
traditional data sources and
deploy across more hybrid &
multi-cloud destinations
Single design experience for
all patterns including
virtualization, batch,
streaming, CDC, ETL, ELT, etc.
Deliver data continuously
even when data drifts (i.e.,
schema, location,
infrastructure changes)
59. Let us help you liberate your data for cloud analytics
www.SoftwareAG.com
60.
61. Navigating online training &
developer resources
Adabas & Natural Virtual User Group Meeting
Nicole Ritchie | Director Adabas & Natural Product Marketing | April 2023
68. Adabas Manager provides browser-based
administration and monitoring of Adabas databases on
Linux, Windows platforms.
It can be used to administer Adabas databases and
z/OS (limited functionality) on remote host machines,
in addition to Adabas databases on the local machine.
Adabas Manager Overview
70. AMN91 New Features OCT 2022
1) Accessing Adabas z/OS Information
• Command, User, Hold Queues
• Statistics and Parameters
2) Adabas Encryption on Linux
• Create new encrypted database
3) 3 new settings to customize the SSL certificate and key
4) Consolidated view of connected / non-connected Adabas LUW host connection
71. AMN92 OCT 2023 is planning to provide features like SYSAOS
1) Queues (UQ/CQ/HQ) selection criteria / filtering
2) Session utilization missing items from interval
• Nucleus File status
• PLOG status
• I/Os by Volser
• WORK status
• Display PPT
3) Session Opercoms all
• Force CLOG/PLOG switch
• Lock or unlock files
• Stop users(s)
• Termination commands
75. Did you know you can access
SQL Server from Natural?
Or almost any other RDBMS
Dave Gahring, President, SemperTech, Inc
Bob Jeffcott, Principal System Engineer, SAG
77. Make a call from Natural to an RDBMS
Software AG Designer – Eclipse based IDE
Test Services
Create wM services
calling RDBMS
database
Test IDL
Generate IDL from
wM Services
1 2
Compile, Test code*
Generate Natural
client code from IDL
file (code moved to
mf via Nat RPC)
3
Integration Server Perspective EntireX Perspective EntireX Perspective
Mainframe
Application
RDBMS Callnat
subprogram
Add Callnat to
Natural Application
4
Online/Batch
Accessing SQL Server (or any RDBMS) from Natural
4 Easy Steps
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103. North America
Adabas & Natural User Group
Natural Mainframe Version 9
Overview of new Functionality, Changes and Highlights
Patrick Gould
110. New Features with 9.1 Highlights
Return the name of the steplib library in *LIBRARY-ID system variable: see the new API USR8217N in Application
Programming Interfaces
Roll Server Support for VSAM
New Authorized Services Manager Features
Natural Main Menu/Development Functions: Changes to Create and Edit