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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 Heß 3 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Provide Object Line count in LIST command in BATCH

Object Line Count is available with options in ONLINE LIST command (via PF11) but not in BATCH. It is very cumbersome to try to count all the lines in a library a batch process with total would be a big help.
Eugene Miklovich 24 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

MultiFetch in Rotate Tables

Using Datasync we found a problem replicating Rotate tables because these types of tables take much longer to execute than "root tables". Support tells us this behavior is because these types of tables don't use multifetch, so we're requesting tha...
Diana Charro 3 months ago in CONNX 4 Under Review

Allow "*" instead of blanks for a non-display field (in maps, INPUT stmt, etc.).

The field attribute AD=N can be used to define a field in a map, an INPUT statement or other output statements as non-display. Any value entered in the field will not be displayed. Instead, blanks will be displayed. However, asterisks should be di...
Georg Schmitt about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) / Utilities 0 New

CDD maintenance / Allow DROP TABLE DESCRIPTION when ADABAS DB is Down

Our DBAs dropped a ADABAS DB, so the nucleus was no longer active (not running). My task was to DROP all CLUSTER and TABLE DESCRIPTIONS for this Database, and finally do a DROP DATABASE. The DDL for DROP CLUSTER DESCRIPTIONS was executed without a...
Christian Held 3 months ago in CONNX 1 Under Review

Seperate passphrase checks from settings for password

Passphrase checks only works if "User password history" is set to Y or *As there is no reason to combinate passphrase with password settings, it would be better to seperate this.
Christina Möllenberg about 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 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 5 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Use underscore in numbers as separator

This only concerns programming, not execution. And also any platform (mainframe, LUW). When you need to code large numbers in a program, you can only use the decimal point to separate digits between the integer and fraction part. But if you want t...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

Debug: allow display of structures

When you want to display the content of a structure, you get a messageVariables of this type may be neither displayed nor modified. Structures should at least be considered equal to (Ax) or (Bx), so that it should be possible to display their whol...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 0 Under Review

Pls. correct documenation of DROP DATABASE statement

If you consult the V14.8 documentation for the DROP DATABASE statement you'll see this: DROP DATABASE database_identifier If you consult the V14.8 documentaion for the CREATE DATABASE statement you will find no database_identifier. The correspondi...
Christian Held 3 months ago in CONNX 1 Under Review
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