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Stored procedure and triggers (LUW)

the trigger function is not available in Adabas on LUW. We want to execute actions if the content of an adabas field is changed. --- Rerouting to Linux. Was: LUW
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting 0 Future consideration

Command interface to LIST XREF in a subprogram

Just like SYSMAIN has a MAINUSER subprogram interface for direct commands, it would be very useful to have the same for LIST XREF. Right now, we are limited to accessing SYSDIC ourselves, using TEST DBLOG to figure out how you guys do it, then cop...
Claes Norreen about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 6 Future consideration

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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

ADABAS/UNIX Online adaord reorder=* (Linux, HP-UX)

A online ADAORD Reorder=* in our very large production database environment takes more than 15 hrs. This is not useful in a 24*7 production environment. A test with a copy of the database on a other machine shows that a Reorder will free million ...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting / Utilities 0 Future consideration

Allow (CV=) after a literal string

Natural allows the use of dynamic control variables during INPUT and WRITE. BUT: the use of those (CV=<control_variable>) is restricted to a variable, not to a literal text. If you want to have a different visual behavior for a string, you m...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Adabas Open System: Utilities should produce xml output

In order to work with Adabas utilities, it would be great to have an option to generate xml output. --- ReRouting to Linux. Was: LUW
Bernhard Siegmann over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Utilities 0 Future consideration

Parameter SUBSID in NDV configuration

We had recently iTrac NATMF-28544: "NDV server ABEND U4087 during clean-up at SESSION_TIMEOUT". Analysis of the problem showed that a LX value for NATASM was 0, and further that the subsystem name was "$#@$", because customer had migrated from NAT...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Future consideration

Function "ODD()"

If you want to know if a number is odd or even, you can do the following now: IF #I <> #I / 2 * 2 THEN ... END-IF This takes however quite a bit of CPU, but it can already by simplified by following declarations: 1 #I (I4)1 REDEFINE #I 2 FIL...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

AND, OR, XOR for binary fields

It is currently not possible to do any "binary" operation on binary fields, like AND, OR, XOR or NOT. This makes declarations of particular bit-constants quasi useless, e.g. ... 3 #TB_VDT_FLAG (B01) /* various property flags...1 #TB_VDT_FLAG_VALUE...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Need the SYSOBJH Statistics user-exit to get stats of each library separately.

Need the SYSOBJH Statistics user-exit to get stats of each Natural library separately. Currently, It returns the statistics of the complete SYSOBJH command used.
Arun Thomas Abraham over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration