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Integrate Natural Mainframe with OKTA

We need integration with OKTA for our Natural environment on zOS. This includes NDV and NWO servers so clients accessing Natural AJAX applications will be authenticated through OKTA on all platofrms.
Raul Chiriboga 5 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Source Code Uppercase Handling in Natural for VS Code

Historically, our Natural source code has been written entirely in uppercase. This convention is important to us and must be preserved to maintain consistency across our codebase and development processes. In Natural ONE we can set Enable case tra...
Detlef Ziermann 3 months ago in Natural for Visual Studio Code / Natural for Visual Studio Code (NLC) 0 Under Review

Enhance reference analysis to detect usage of Data Areas via DEFINE DATA USING

In Natural for VS Code, reference analysis currently supports identifying references to fields and groups within Data Areas. However, there is no reliable way to determine where a Data Area itself is used via DEFINE DATA USING. This limitation sig...
Detlef Ziermann 3 months ago in Natural for Visual Studio Code / Natural for Visual Studio Code (NLC) 0 Under Review

Call Java from Natural

To succeed with Jopaz at our existing Natural customers, who use Cobol in parallel, we need the possibility to call Java from Natural. The reason is that Jopaz-compiled Cobol applications run as Java applications. Natural is used to call Cobol, ou...
Wolfgang He� 10 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

signed software packages

Hi SAG, our security department requests for signed software packages. IBM has the ability integrated in SMPE: GIM69270I SIGNATURE VALIDATION FOR FILE "/syi/smpnts/WRZMIM/STP71264/GIMPAF2.XML" WAS SUCCESSFUL. THE GIMZIP PACKAGE WAS SIGNED BY A CE...
Christian Krendl 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Security 0 Under Review

Allow for switching transactions through WEB I/O CICS Adapater

Currently through the Web IO adapter to CICS we cannot switch to different CICS transactions once the session is started. We are forced to start a new session to access a different CICS transaction. We would like the ability to change CICS transac...
Raul Chiriboga 12 months ago in Natural for z/OS 1 Under Review

Cross Reference Generation Without Blocking SYSMAIN Copy

Using new SYSSEC Cross-reference option "B" would Always Generate XREF data during Catalog or Stow to be certain we will create it if we can. It would not prevent Copying or Moving Objects into the Library which are simply missing XREF. The SYSMA...
Rick Poirier over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Introduce a command in all utilities to show environment details.

Add in all Adabas utilities (and nucleus) a command "Environment" which should write a file to /tmp with a list of all environment variables and the parameter settings (like the asterisk command). I suggest to add this command to all Software AG p...
Bjarne S�rensen 8 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review

Allow for I8 datatype

OpenSystems hardware has it for a long time, z/Series has it for quite a while now, so by now there is no platform NOT natively supporting 64-bit arithmetic. So please introduce an I8 datatype into Natural - on all supported platforms (and NOC as ...
Wolfgang Winter about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Under Review

Adarep free_space to show free percentage.

The adarep free_space list should at the end show the amount and percentage of combined free space in the container - like shown in the attached file. This would save me time when checking that none of the many databases risk running full.
Bjarne S�rensen almost 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review