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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 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Online reorder of data should not write gigabytes on p-log

Stop or make optional the writing of records moved by online reorder to the protection log. do this to reduce the critical recovery time (restore and regenerate). When you do an online reorder of an Adabas file in a given descriptor sequence the r...
Bjarne Sørensen over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

SAST Testing of customer applications

The NIS2 Directive requires us to define policies, processes, and procedures in several areas, including third-party risk management and the implementation of a secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC). However, we are encountering more chall...
Ilan Hirschowitz 7 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to?

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to? There's no USR-Subprogram giving the answer to that question. Sample:Imagine the following: Let's say my UDB is set to 001. DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 VIEW01 VIEW MYFILE1-DB12 /* DBID...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Future consideration

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe, we have found that our customers find it difficult to implement the licence keys on mainframe. Whenever there is changes on the hardware configuration they experience problems. AD...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Secure storage/retrieval of passwords such as EXX passwords

Currently, calling secured EntireX services requires calling RPC-CNTX or USR2071N/USR2702N/USR2074N/etc to pass in a user id and password. There's no provision for providing anything other than a clear text password, so it ends up in clear text in...
Douglas Kelly over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

ONE: E_0285 MOVE ALL with SUBSTRING option

The SUBSTRING function in MOVE ALL has not yet been implemented in Natural LUW and ONE.The statement MOVE ALL 'string' TO SUBSTR(field,n,m) results in the following errors: NAT0285 Field reference error; reference invalid or missing. (Natural)E_02...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

IP-Address in ADABAS REVIEW

For any 24/7 service-oriented organization that relies heavily on REVIEW Logs for monitoring/statistical purposes, a search is made to identify transactions generating errors/loops. But we are unable to find the IP-address of the source. Although,...
Arun Thomas Abraham over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 Future consideration
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