About quality in NATURAL/ADABAS

GaaZzz · New User Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 2 Location: France

Hi guys,

I'm french, so sorry for my bad english ...

I'm searching information about best practices in NATURAL/ADABASE because I use a quality product at my job and I don't understand all the diagnostic because I don't know a lot about this langage/db.

I've work a long time on MVS system, but in COBOL/CICS/IMS.

I'm very stressed about these explanation because I have to support friday this analyse in front of the customer. So I have to show that I know what these diags are looking for.

If you can spend some time to explain me the real reason of these diags I give you the list :

What I understood :

Parameter data area = communication Zone betweem programme

Global data area = general view of the application on ADABAS

Local data area = local view of the application on ADABAS

And here are the diags that I don't explain me :

1 - Avoid Programs using IGNORE statement

2 - Avoid empty ON ERROR clauses in Programs .... est ce comme les handle cics ?

3 - Avoid Programs in REPORTING mode

4 - Avoid Programs using a MAP while access Adabas via a Natural View

5 - Avoid Nested Programs using IGNORE statement

6 - Avoid Programs using MOVE BY NAME .... est ce comme le MOVE CORRESPONDING ?

7 - Avoid Programs using plain UPDATE statement

8 - Avoid Programs using WHERE statement in Read operation

9 - Avoid not processing the default handling in a Switch Statement in Programs

10 - Avoid Programs using STOP and TERMINATE

11 - Avoid using WITH LIMIT(xx) in Programs

Thank's to everyone whor read this post and a lot of thank's to who can spend some time to help me.

Jean-Charles

sriramp777 · New User Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

1 - Avoid Programs using IGNORE statement
IGNORE stmts could be used in DECIDE ON/FOR stmts and these stmts could be avoided by having some meaningful execution of some routines. For eg, having a error routine in IGNORE clause.

2 - Avoid empty ON ERROR clauses in Programs .... est ce comme les handle cics ?
ON ERROR stmts could be coded anywhere in the program. To have a better programming practice, this is coded either in begining of the program or at the end of the program. This is to handle any unexpected errors in the program.

3 - Avoid Programs in REPORTING mode
Now a days, only Structure mode is used upon and has other advantages too to have the code in Structured mode. For eg, Better readability of the code.

4 - Avoid Programs using a MAP while access Adabas via a Natural View
Maps are used whenever we deal with any online screens ( similar to CICS maps). Nothing wrong in having the access of ADABAS along with Maps.

5 - Avoid Nested Programs using IGNORE statement
Not sure about what you mean with this.

6 - Avoid Programs using MOVE BY NAME .... est ce comme le MOVE CORRESPONDING ?
It is better to have MOVE CORRESPONDING, that is, moving based on the structure of the group or redefined variable

7 - Avoid Programs using plain UPDATE statement
Need to better careful with this UPDATE stmt, that this should be used alongwith the END TRANSACTION or the BACKOUT TRANSACTION correspondigly.

8 - Avoid Programs using WHERE statement in Read operation
Using WHERE stmt along with READ, which require more of the SIO and it is like having a complex query to fetch the information from the ADABAS Files.

9 - Avoid not processing the default handling in a Switch Statement in Programs
This is nothing but the NONE clause in the DECIDE ON/FOR stmt.

10 - Avoid Programs using STOP and TERMINATE
STOP / TERMINATE will abruptly stop the processing of the program. Nothing wrong in using this, but with appropriate error message to be thrown out.

11 - Avoid using WITH LIMIT(xx) in Programs
LIMIT will surely help us limiting the READ / FIND and it is advisable to use this LIMIT when you are not sure about when to stop the processing.

More info cud be found at documentation.softwareag.com/natural/default.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Sam

GaaZzz · New User Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 2 Location: France

Many thank's to you Sam

I'll analyse your answer immediatly

There will help me for sure

Jc