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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 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 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 6 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

Seperate passphrase checks from settings for password

Passphrase checks only works if "User password history" is set to Y or *As there is no reason to combinate passphrase with password settings, it would be better to seperate this.
Christina Möllenberg 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Use underscore in numbers as separator

This only concerns programming, not execution. And also any platform (mainframe, LUW). When you need to code large numbers in a program, you can only use the decimal point to separate digits between the integer and fraction part. But if you want t...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

Ability to customize the mapping form

When mapping to a Natural Server Environment, a form is display in which a number of parameters could be defined (Host name, Port Number, Environment Name, session parameters,Userid,password). This same form appears when clicking on the properties...
Jamal Alwaye 3 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Debug: allow display of structures

When you want to display the content of a structure, you get a messageVariables of this type may be neither displayed nor modified. Structures should at least be considered equal to (Ax) or (Bx), so that it should be possible to display their whol...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 0 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 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 4 Under Review

Support automatic struct of source when saved

Make NaturalONE "struct" the source whenever it is saved, like if the stuct command was given just before the source was saved. This struct command should of cause support stuct=on and struct=off in the source. To be supported by a switch to switc...
Jesper Orland about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Under Review