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Protecting a Natural Object from SAVE/CAT/DELETE

Though Natural Security provides means of protecting a library in general via command and statement restrictions, it does not allow us to do that for a particular Natural Object. Natural Security does provide restrictions on execution of specific ...
Jamal Alwaye 7 days ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 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 11 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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

MultiFetch in Rotate Tables

Using Datasync we found a problem replicating Rotate tables because these types of tables take much longer to execute than "root tables". Support tells us this behavior is because these types of tables don't use multifetch, so we're requesting tha...
Diana Charro 3 months ago in CONNX 4 Under Review

Support for OpenTelemetry

provide a supported, ready-to-use, adaptable solution/addon e.g. hook into Link Routine User Exit 1 (Pre-Command) and User Exit 2 (Post-Command) and send data to a collector before entering LUEXIT1 and after finishing LUEXIT2 https://openteleme...
Ernst Chvatal 9 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

CDD maintenance / Allow DROP TABLE DESCRIPTION when ADABAS DB is Down

Our DBAs dropped a ADABAS DB, so the nucleus was no longer active (not running). My task was to DROP all CLUSTER and TABLE DESCRIPTIONS for this Database, and finally do a DROP DATABASE. The DDL for DROP CLUSTER DESCRIPTIONS was executed without a...
Christian Held 3 months ago in CONNX 1 Under Review

Increase File Limit in ADASQL Compiler for XREF

SQL241 (Product not listed under CATEGORIES) XREF limit for COBOL compile - SQL0209 MORE THAN 30 FILES TO DOCUMENT (as per Incident SI-578502) Workaround is to turn XREF OFF to avoid the issue, but not ideal is XREF is heavily used by our LOBs
George Maree 3 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Utilities 0 Under Review

Automated Initialization of Global/Independent Variables per Session (NDV)

In our development environment, the correct i nitialization of Global and Independent variables is a mandatory prerequisite for both execution and cataloging (STOW) of Natural objects. We manage hundreds of libraries and systems , each with its ow...
Luciano Pinheiro Pimenta 5 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) / Usability 0 Under Review

Cross Reference Generation Without Blocking SYSMAIN Copy

Using new SYSSEC Cross-reference option "B" would Always Generate XREF data during Catalog or Stow to be certain we will create it if we can. It would not prevent Copying or Moving Objects into the Library which are simply missing XREF. The SYSMA...
Rick Poirier 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review