Cincom SUPRA® Server PDM

Release 1.3.10 for Unix

All the power and capabilities of SUPRA Server PDM for the mainframe are available in the Unix world. See the SUPRA Server PDM Release 1.3.10 Data Sheet (PDF) for more detailed information about SUPRA Server PDM and the 1.3.10 release.

Supported platforms for SUPRA Server PDM Release 1.3.10 include:

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Upgrade now to the latest release of SUPRA Server PDM (1.3.10), which offers the following major process improvements:

• Business Intelligence for SUPRA is comprised of three layers that provide an integrated set of data access, ETL/data warehousing and multi-dimensional analytics packages that enable SUPRA PDM users to transform volumes of SUPRA PDM data into analytic information.
  • Data Access for SUPRA gives you direct access to SUPRA operational data through the SQL language.
  • Data Warehouse for SUPRA provides a data warehousing solution optimized to SUPRA PDM.
  • Analytics for SUPRA enables multi-dimensional analysis of information from the users’ operational SUPRA databases.
• Serial read-ahead cache buffering — This feature can dramatically improve the performance of serial read (read-only) database operations.
• Enhanced buffer management algorithm — Release 1.3.10 offers an enhanced buffer management algorithm for files that are fully buffered.
• DBA expand related dataset utility — The DBA expand related dataset utility has been enhanced to allow new records to be added to a new file-spec (extent).
• Increase in maximum number of PDM tasks — The maximum number of PDM tasks has increased from 1,000 to 32,766.
• Operator command utility — The operator command utility has been enhanced to provide new functions.
• Addition of DEBUG parameter — The DEBUG parameter has been added to the HELP file for csiopcom for the operator commands DISABLE and ENABLE.
• REDO command — The REDO command has been added to csiopcom, allowing the previous command to be re-executed without retyping it.
• Context switch reduction — The number of context switches required to perform a DML function has been reduced to two.
• Reduction in required semaphores — The number of semaphores required for each task has been reduced from two to one.

SUPRA Server PDM for HP-UX can now run multiple single-task PDM applications simultaneously with multi-task PDMs.