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

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 almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

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 Future consideration

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

Natural RPC - Buffer pool closing procedure

Having defined a NTBPI macro with: GBP, SEQ=0 and LBP, SEQ=1, if GBP is closed while the Natural sesión is active, Natural attemps to connect the LBP. But for a Natural RPC it doesn't work in the same way. In our installation we have configured AL...
Jose Dario Rudz 7 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Enhance Hyperdescriptor Exit for Natural Mainframe Server to cover other areas too

With Natural 9.1.2 we introduced a hyperdescriptor exit NATHX15 to improve the performance when reading Natural object names on a Mainframe server.This exit was enhanced with Natural 9.2.1 to also fast read Natural library names. It should be cons...
Stefan Diehl 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Utilities 0 Planned

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT .It can be similar to the existing SCAN tool. The replace function is not required and may be a bit dangerous. This way we can search all source code for a specific string, be...
Dana Sherbondy about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

Filler notation for WRITE WORK FILE

Enhancement Request: Please consider allowing filler notation (nX) with the WRITE WORK FILE statement. Example: WRITE WORK FILE 1 VARIABLE #VAR1 2X #VAR2 5X #VAR3 Reason: Filler notation is intuitive and gives a consistent feel to the language syn...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan