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Andrew Johnson
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<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.15.0.1 and 3.15.0.2</h2>
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<h3>Added optional dbServer API to database</h3>
<p>A server layer that sits on top of the IOC database may now register itself
as such by calling <tt>dbRegisterServer()</tt> and providing optional routines
that other components can use. The initial purpose of this API allows the Trace
Processing implementation in <tt>dbProcess()</tt> to identify a client that
causes a record to process when TPRO is set.</p>
<p>To support the client idenfication, the server provides a routine that
returns that identity string when called by one of its own processing
threads.</p>
<h3>Concatenated database definition files</h3>
<p>A series of database definition (dbd) files can now be concatenated during