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Adager from Adager Corporation, http://www.adager.com

DBGeneral from Bradmark, http://www.bradmark.com

Flexibase from Open Seas, http://www.open-seas.com

Introduction

The products named above have been examined and compared. The first thing that should be noted

is that

all

of these products are excellent replacements for DBChangePlus.

Four areas of functionality were looked at, and these are described under separate headings below.

Dataset capacity changes

Reporting

Fixing structural damage

Database restructuring

Due to different product structures and pricing strategies, exact comparisons of functionality and

value for money cannot be made. The following product combinations are roughly equivalent, and

have been used for comparison.

For a

lite

version which does dataset capacity management, database reporting and structural fixes,

but no restructuring:

Adager's

Adager Model 1

Bradmark's

DBGeneral Introduction Package plus Section 2

No Flexibase option

For a

full

version which restructures the database as well:

Adager's

Adager Model 2

Bradmark's

DBGeneral Standard Package plus Section 2

Open Seas'

Flexibase

The vendors of these products have special offers in place at present, due to the obsolescence of

DBChangePlus. It would be wise to visit their web sites for information on the special offers and for

more information on the products, before making a choice.

Dataset capacity changes

All three products can modify dataset capacities.

Adager provides an MPE/iX script file to set minimum and

maximum capacity thresholds for datasets,

and increase & decrease those capacities accordingly.

DBGeneral has similar capacity changing features that are executed by the DBGeneral program

itself. DBGeneral can also do some trend analysis of dataset capacities. DBGeneral can also be set

to identify, within a range of +/- 5 around the calculated required capacity, that capacity which will

produce the best primary/secondary ratio for master datasets

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Summary of content (5 pages)

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Third-Party MPE/iX Database Tools Page 1 of 5 Jazz home > Papers & Training TurboIMAGE database tools » Return to original page Products Adager from Adager Corporation, http://www.adager.com DBGeneral from Bradmark, http://www.bradmark.com Flexibase from Open Seas, http://www.open-seas.com Introduction The products named above have been examined and compared. The first thing that should be noted is that all of these products are excellent replacements for DBChangePlus.
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Third-Party MPE/iX Database Tools Page 2 of 5 Flexibase has the same capacity management features as the other two products; they are executed by the Flexibase program. It can also accept quite complex calculations to determine the new capacity of a dataset, based upon the capacities of other datasets. All three can set up batch jobs that will automatically manage dataset capacities when streamed on a regular basis. Reporting All three products provide some level of reporting.
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Third-Party MPE/iX Database Tools Page 3 of 5 All products can re-pack datasets for optimum performance and efficiency. All three products support most of the latest Turboimage and Image/SQL features: All three support B-Trees and Third Party Indexing. Image/SQL - DBGeneral, Adager and Flexibase all handle Image/SQL attached databases automatically. DBGeneral can generate a list of commands used to reattach the database if it cannot automatically do so itself.
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Third-Party MPE/iX Database Tools Page 4 of 5 either 30% or 39% of the first-copy price. This comparatively low second-copy price may make Adager attractive to sites with many systems. Support for the first copy of Adager is priced at 13% of the original purchase price, (in Adager's case, purchase includes first-year support), and between 4% and 13% of the first-copy price for support of subsequent copies.
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