Turboimage Database Tools

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 re-
attach the database if it cannot automatically do so itself.
Adager and DBGeneral support Jumbo datasets (> 4Gb).
Dynamic Detail set expansion and Master set expansion (DDX and MDX) are both
supported by Adager. DBGeneral and Flexibase support DDX.
Other features
Adager offers and supports a program to convert DBCPlus scripts into Adager jobstreams for those
users that have DBCPlus command files.
Adager and DBGeneral fully support Netbase/Shareplex. In both
lite
and
full
version, database
modifications are automatically mirrored to the slave database.
DBGeneral has a
Storbase
option, which writes compressed database data to tape.
DBGeneral has a
DBAudit
option that will report analyze Turboimage logs and report information on
database access.
DBGeneral will create a test multi-database environment for you at the size of your choice and copy
logically and physically consistent data across; this could be very useful in an active development
environment. This function is found in
Section 6
, and must be bought separately.
Flexibase can extract data from one database and copy it to another to create test data.
Flexibase provides German, French and Spanish versions as well as English.
Flexibase can check
logical
data relationships are consistent in addition to the structural checking
mentioned above.
Discussion
The sections below relate to these products' standard prices. However, the vendors are responding
to the obsolescence of DBChangePlus and have special offers in place.
Please visit their websites for
further information.
Adager from Adager Corporation
Adager has a non-tiered pricing structure based on two models. Adager
Model 1
provides all
functionality (including capacity changing) except database restructuring. This would be particularly
suitable for sites with a large number of stable production systems. The full-function
Model 2
could
still be installed on development systems.
Adager's non-tiered pricing structure is also to the
advantage of sites with larger systems. Comparing
the full function products at a single-system site, Adager becomes the best-value option compared to
both Flexibase and DBGeneral at about the series 957 size.
Adager offers reduced prices for second and subsequent copies. Subsequent copies are priced at
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