TurboIMAGE/XL Database Management System Reference Manual (30391-90012)

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What's New in this Edition
TurboIMAGE/XL version C.09.05 or later includes the following enhancements:
DBUTIL prompts for PURGE and ERASE command
When purging or erasing a database, DBUTIL will prompt the user with full qualified
database name and will wait for a ‘yes or no’ answer to prevent accidentally purging or
erasing the wrong database. A JCW, NODBUTCONF, can be set to suppress the
prompting so the existing script will not break.
Larger dynamic transaction size
The old limit for a dynamic transaction size was 4 MB/64 MB: the transaction size of a
process cannot exceed 4 MB and the total transaction size in a volume set cannot exceed 64
MB. Now the limit expands to 32 MB/64 MB. That is the transaction size of a process
cannot exceed 32 MB and the total size in a volume set cannot exceed 64 MB. If user has
enough disk space in the master volume of a volume set and the main memory size is
greater than 256 MB then the total transaction size is configurable via VOLUTIL.
Data set size can be greater than 80 GB
Because of an internal pointer structure, the maximum data set size was limited to 80 GB.
By using the LARGESET option of the $CONTROL statement in DBSCHEMA program,
now user can create a database with a data set size greater than 80 GB.
Several new limits for a database
Several limits have been lifted: user can define a database with up to 240 data sets and
1200 data items. Number of paths from master data set to detail data set has been
increased from 16 to 64.
Store session/job name into ‘userident’ field of the DBOPEN log
record
In DBOPEN intrinsic, the second parameter is composed of ‘password’ and ‘userident’. If
user enables the database for logging, the ‘userident’ part will be stored in the DBOPEN
log record. If user has left that part blank, now s/he has an option to use session/job name
to replace the blank and stores as the ‘userident’.
New modes for DBCONTROL
Three new DBCONTROL modes: mode 18, mode 19 and mode 20, have been added to help
programs to control the large transaction size setting and limit setting.
New DBUTIL options
Two new options, OLDINFOLIMITS and FORCESESSION, have been added to
ENABLE/DISABLE command of DBUTIL.