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AND, OR, XOR for binary fields

It is currently not possible to do any "binary" operation on binary fields, like AND, OR, XOR or NOT. This makes declarations of particular bit-constants quasi useless, e.g. ... 3 #TB_VDT_FLAG (B01) /* various property flags...1 #TB_VDT_FLAG_VALUE...

Philippe Van Coppenolle 17 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

Userexit to write SMF records without switching into TCB mode

We have an ongoing Assembler replacement project and want to get rid of a routine which writes SMF records for statistics data. This routine is called around 60 million times a day from RPC transactions. Every call causes a switch from zIIP to the GP

Alexander Schuster about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

8 VOTE

Automatic verification of a zaps Pre-req.

Natural and other product zaps regularly have prerequisites for example; * *+ZAP:NA93002 * -------- (C) Software AG, Darmstadt/Germany, 2012 -------- * ---------------- Release Date: 01.Nov.2012 --------------- * PRODUCT: NAT823 * PREREQ. : NA9222...

Guest almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

6 VOTE

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 almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

5 VOTE

Introduce User-Defined Data Types

There is a SAG strategie (or statement)called "ADABAS & NATURAL 2050+" Based on this I would like to have "User-Defined Data Types". I assume that the audience is familiar with this concept. When NATURAL was introduced it was called a 4-GL lan...

Guest almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

3 VOTE

NAT: Numeric target operands in SEPARATE statement desired

Unfortunately it is not possible with the SEPARATE statement to assign numeric values directly to numeric target fields. Message: NAT0240 Operand format invalid. Format A, B or U expected. So, sometimes laborious redefinitions are necessary. It wo...

Guest almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

1 VOTE

JobID in User Exit USR4002N

Please add the JobID of the current runtime environment to USR4002N

Alexander Schuster 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

2 VOTE

Allow RPC from Natural without forcing ICU to be installed

Directly related to SI-458003 use RPC protocol 2050 without using ICU instead using Natural default code page. This was reviewed and suggested by Software AG RnD. Thanks, Chad Scott - Feb.24, 2022

Chad Scott over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Planned

2 VOTE

READ DESCENDING BY ISN

Background: Occasionally, we want to access the LAST record in a file, but there is no simple way to do this. For Adabas files with the option ISN-Reusage=No,a feature such as READ (1) DESCENDING BY ISN would achieve this requirement simply & ...

Guest almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural for Adabas (NAC) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under development

2 VOTE

FIND NUMBER RECORDS ...

Background: Currently, Natural has no "generic" way to find the number of records loaded in an Adabas file. Natural must always use the name of a file-specific descriptor which is "known to be populated for every record". e.g. FIND NUMBER EMPLOYES...

Guest almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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