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WRITE WORK FILE / allow <work-file-number> to be a named constant

The syntax of the WRITE WORK FILE statement forces the to be an explicit numeric literal (ex: 1, 7, 22). It should be possible to use a named constant instead. Benefits: - code beomes more readable. - Searching inside a program becomes morehandy (...
Christian Held almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

NAT: COMPRESS LOGICAL variable

It is possible to MOVE a field of format L to a field of format A. But it is not possible to COMPRESS a field of format L into a field of format A. This should be made possible, following the rules of a MOVE: TRUE as x'E7' FALSE as x'40' Example...
Guest almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Generate SYSOBJH WORKPLAN LISTs from Predict

Rather than hand-coding the WORKPLAN lists, would be better to have something like a Generation option in Predict to create the SYSOBJH WORKPLAN (in spite of the name clash with Predict's "workplan" feature). Enabling us to create and manipulate t...
Douglas Kelly almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Predict (PRD) 0 Released

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 about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Released

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 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural for Adabas (NAC) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Released

Dynamic RPC-Trace

We need the possibility to switch the NATURAL-RPC-Trace on / off dynamically. We have a lot of NATURAL-Batch-RPC-Servers with up to 40 Tasks. It is not possible to stop the Server in operation, but sometimes we need a trace of a running server, if...
Reiner Koester almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

*TIMESTMP (B8) "overflow"

At 17.09.2042 the B8-Variable *TIMESTMP will be "full". In 23 year; compare it with the difference to year 2000. This variable is important. Is there a plan to solve the problem? In coordination with IBM (Store clock)? *TIMESTMP is use for time me...
Guest almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

JobID in User Exit USR4002N

Please add the JobID of the current runtime environment to USR4002N
Alexander Schuster over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Provide "correct" value in Threadsize maxused

When storaged needed for dynamic variables (eg. DYNVDES) is expanded, a new buffer with the expanded size is allocated and content of the "old" buffer is copied to the new buffer and then the old buffer is released. When calculating the max allowe...
Jesper Orland over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

SHA-256 support required for USR4011

Cu is currently still using USR4011 with SHA-1. Does a Natural user exit exist supporting SHA-256? Or is there another way available to work with SHA-256 in Natural?
Elke Weyand about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Security 0 Released
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