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    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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

    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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

    Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM): TotalUC#2 new Use count field for depicting Level-1 executions of natural objects

    Under Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM), we noticed while investigating a performance issue in production that when a Natural Object has multi-level, the TotalUC value for the primary object is a cumulative sum of all the sub-routines being called. Th...
    Zaffer Khan over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 4 Under Review

    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...
    Christian Held over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

    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 about 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

    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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

    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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

    PQC Quantum Safe Products

    Please provide road map for PQC capabilities for Natural and add-ons PQC Strategic Supplier RFI Questions PQC Strategic Supplier RFI Questions What is the core service type of the product you provide to JPMC? What is the platform type of the p...
    Ben Anstee 18 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 New

    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 about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 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 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) / Utilities 0 New
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