Adabas Vista

The architecture of Adabas Vista is designed to optimize the performance and manageability of large Adabas databases. The core components include the Vista Manager, Partitioning Engine, and Data Access Layer. The Vista Manager is the central control point, responsible for overall system configuration, monitoring, and management.

It interacts with configuration files to determine partition settings and dataset locations. The Partitioning Engine is responsible for distributing data across multiple datasets based on predefined rules, optimizing data placement for performance and availability. The Data Access Layer provides an optimized interface for accessing data, ensuring efficient retrieval based on the partitioning scheme.

The CLI is the primary administrative interface, providing commands such as 'CREATE PARTITION', 'ALTER PARTITION', 'ACTIVATE PARTITION', and 'DEACTIVATE PARTITION'. Configuration files are critical, defining partition definitions, dataset locations, and performance tuning settings. These files are accessed by the Vista Manager during startup and operation.

Adabas Vista integrates with existing Adabas databases without requiring changes to application code. Security is managed through the mainframe's security features, including authentication and access control mechanisms like RBAC and ACLs. The system uses standard protocols for communication within the mainframe environment.

Compared to other database solutions, Adabas Vista offers specialized partitioning capabilities tailored for Adabas databases on mainframe platforms, providing significant performance gains and operational efficiencies.