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Natural for z/OS

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 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 about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) Under Review

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 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Planned

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Not in Plan

Support work file type TRANSFER

With the increased support for Natural HA, allowing mainframe applications to write to the browser through work files of type TRANSFER would give a local print and download capability
Graeme Kirby 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Future consideration

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 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Planned

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 He� 10 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) Under Review

Allow for switching transactions through WEB I/O CICS Adapater

Currently through the Web IO adapter to CICS we cannot switch to different CICS transactions once the session is started. We are forced to start a new session to access a different CICS transaction. We would like the ability to change CICS transac...
Raul Chiriboga 12 months ago in Natural for z/OS 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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) Under Review

NSC: Allow / Disallow modules in steplib

If a Natural module exists in a library AND one of its steplibs, it should be possible to DISALLOW the module in the library and ALLOW it in the steplib (or vice versa).
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) Not in Plan
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