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Enhance Hyperdescriptor Exit for Natural Mainframe Server to cover other areas too

With Natural 9.1.2 we introduced a hyperdescriptor exit NATHX15 to improve the performance when reading Natural object names on a Mainframe server.This exit was enhanced with Natural 9.2.1 to also fast read Natural library names. It should be cons...
Stefan Diehl 5 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Utilities 0 Planned

NSC Password Phrase without Natural ICU Handler

It should be possible to use NSC password phrase for logon even if the „Natural ICU handler“ is not available / activated. Changing old applications to CFICU=ON is not always possible.
Christina Möllenberg 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

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 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

Allow account verification in the AD and in FSEC in case of absence of the account

Several categories of people use our application under Natural, the vast majority having an AD account. However, a minority of people are temporary workers who do not have an AD account and who connect locally to the production site. In this sc...
Maximilien BARBIER 4 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

option to not include data format/length when importing data fields

when using the Advanced Edit option to Insert Data Fields, the length and format (e.g. "(A1)" is always included, even for DDM fields. An option should be available to suppress these lengths and formats for fields that inherit the length/format fr...
Douglas Kelly 11 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

display of system variables in debugger needs qualifying references

when debugging a program with many database access loops, the *ISN, *NUMBER, *COUNTER variables are listed without qualification as to which loop/statement they come from, resulting in a guessing game as to which is relevant. Could the line number...
Douglas Kelly 12 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

Add detailed logfiles for NDV

We need to have a logfile to show why the NDV (natdvsrv) process would remain active but the actual port (2700 for example) becomes unavailable; You have to restart the NDV process to active the port again but it would be nice to have a logfile or...
Hentie Pauley about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Planned

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 Planned

Provide "wrap-around" Tracefiles / currently there ist only one file possible

We faced an "unexpected" behaviour of the JDBC-Server during the execution of massive parallel SQL-SELECT Statements. No idea why this happend, because we run ACE for years without any problems. The support gave the advice to enable minimum trace ...
Christian Held over 1 year ago in CONNX 0 Planned

Make 'SYSOUT Line Limit' Owner Dependent

In order to avoid loops and blocking of monitor tasks there's default parameters for NOP called 'SYSOUT Line Limit' and 'Line Limit for End-of-Job Checking' limiting the work on SYSOUT files to a number of lines.This is useful in certain situation...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 1 year ago in Entire System Management and Cronus 0 Planned
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