The new powerful N2OSCAN `Superfinder` utility in Treehouse Software`s popular automated change management system, N2O, could be the missing piece in the Year 2000 (Y2K) `puzzle` for many organisations running ADABAS/Natural. N2O, distributed locally by Bateleur Software, provides cost-effective automated change management for NATURAL objects, SYSERR messages and PREDICT objects. The separately priced N2O/3GL feature extends N2O to support change management for 3GL members stored in ENDEVOR Stages, PANVALET Libraries, LIBRARIAN Master Files or MVS Partitioned Data Sets (PDS). N2OSCAN, the new advanced utility available free of charge to N2O customers, greatly extends the features and flexibility of the NATURAL SCAN utility to make searching for specific strings within NATURAL objects easier than ever. With N2OSCAN, entire NATURAL libraries be searched, as well as ranges of NATURAL objects and ranges of NATURAL libraries within a NATURAL FUSER. N2OSCAN`s character string search supports absolute scans to allow for searching of strings starting with or containing a specific set of characters. Strings in any language may be specified. Users have the flexibility to search for multiple strings in a single pass of the NATURAL objects. Additionally, users may specify strings to exclude from the search to eliminate "false hits" from the scan output. This permits, for example, an absolute scan for the string "DATE" which excludes occurrences of the NATURAL statement "UPDATE". Search parameters and strings are created and maintained using the NATURAL Editor. Parameters and strings, called Scan Parm Sets, are stored as NATURAL text objects, allowing them to be specified, modified if necessary and used multiple times if desired. Results from a scan run include a detailed list of all `hits` (indicating the specific lines where strings were found), as well as summary data showing statistics at the object, library and complete-run level. All results from scans are stored in an ADABAS file, allowing for further analysis and reporting. The results can be viewed either on-line or printed out in batch. Donald Abbot, a Director of Bateleur Software, says: "This incredibly robust tool may be the missing piece in the Y2K puzzle for many ADABAS/Natural shops. Together with `helper` products such as LumeNAT, TRIM, PROFILER, AUDITRE and ADAREORG, N2O with its integrated `superfinder` feature forms part of our comprehensive Y2K solution aimed at reducing the time, workload and costs of Y2K projects. "Our best-of-breed packages are available under a unique and highly cost effective software rental solution, designed specifically to assist organisations running ADABAS or NATURAL to meet urgent Y2K deadlines."
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