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Improve logging in RPC servers

We use logs created by RPC-servers to log the elaps time of RPC services, service by service. But the log shows only the time in full seconds, we would like this time to be given in milliseconds. We use these 4 lines: B *** Return from listen at 2...
Jesper Orland 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Under development

Editor Buffer Pool management of Recovery Files

Most of the Natural applicative programmers do not delete their Recovery Files - which results from time to time in an overflowed EBP. My suggestion is to: (a) Make a timeout parameter for Recovery Files as well (same as FTOUT for Logical Files). ...
Noam Eliyahu over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Under development

Higher precision for *CPU-TIME

We need a higher precision for *CPU-TIME so that we can determine the CPU time consumed by individual RPC requests in a batch RPC server. The vast majority of our transactions are faster than 10ms. We currently do this using an assembler program, ...
Alexander Schuster over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Under development

Allow spacer element (“1X”) in COMPRESS statement

With a COMPRESS statement the contents of one or more operands (Vari or Const) can be concatenated into a single target field. Beside some other options, two different clauses are available to determine the value separation behavior. (1) With LEAV...
Thomas Frischmann about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) Under development

Allow wildcard notation “?” inside input edit mask for MOVE EDITED

With the MOVE EDITED statement you can apply an edit mask for Operand1 to output a field of any format (except H/C) into an alpha string (A/U/B) with a specific layout described by the edit mask. The edit mask can be considered as an output edit m...
Thomas Frischmann about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) Under development