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support NaturalHA client with NWO on z/OS

From SoftwareAG:" To run the NHA Client against an NWO Server on the mainframe is not supported currently and was not part of the expected use case." We are currently migrating away from our Mainframe to Linux and we want to use the same client (N...
Chris Williams 3 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / High Availability / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 8 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

can NATRPC39 be called after sending response?

Currently NATRPC39 is called before a reply to an RPC request is sent to Broker. If this could be moved to after the reply is sent, it would reduce the impact on performance for RPC calls by doing the NATRPC39 exit work after the reply was sent on...
Douglas Kelly 9 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Parameter and Local Variables for Inline Subroutines

Since I´ve been programming Natural (30 Years!) I miss the possibility to give my Natural Programs a good structure by defining exactly the scope of variables used in inline subroutines as it is possible in all established programming languages li...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Remove Natural file number limit

It does not make sense that a supported version ofOpen Systems Natural or any Natural utility (I.E. SYSDDM) would have a limitationwhere afile number would need to be 5000 or less whenOpen SystemsAdabas has not had that limitation for a long time....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Predict (PRD) 0 Planned

Regular expressions in logical condition

We would like to use regular expressions in logical conditions. E.g. IF <#VAR> = REGEX (.*search_text_1.*\..*search_text_2)
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

New System-Variable UUID

Currently, we use *TIMESTMP(X) as a unique reference and foreign key in database-files. To be able to generate unique keys for the database entries, even in the case of distributed Natural-installations (in the future clusters or via entire networ...
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

Extend Natural Objectnames to 32 Byte

Natural Newbees are shocked, when they find out, that Objectnames in Natural are maximum 8 Bytes long. It is like DOS in the 90ties. So Natural should allow Objectnames to 32 Byte (Natural for Open Systems), An alternative would be, to extend the ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 6 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

handle db connection with rpc server

Hi, In our environment we are using REST API to access Natural RPC servers. I have noticed that the RPC process isn’t closing its db (adabas) connections. Using ADAOPR DI=UQ_FILE I saw that NATRPC is still holding files that a request that had ran...
Hezi Shirazi 7 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Prevent NAT1326 with MOVE...TO SUBSTRING with DYNAMIC variables

PROBLEM: =======The following program will get a Runtime error NAT1326: * see Software AG Support Incident 113138 ...DEFINE DATA LOCAL1 #A (A) DYNAMIC1 #COL (I2) INIT <1> (EM=ZZ9)1 #I (I2) (EM=ZZ9)END-DEFINE*EXPAND DYNAMIC VARIABLE #A TO 500...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan
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