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Show which ADABAS-fields are defined as a descriptor in query building tools

The software engineers should have an easy access get the information, which fields are indexes fields. This information could be provided in the field list of a query builder (infonaut, jdbc test application, ...) with an additional column
Martin Walzl about 2 months ago in CONNX 1 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 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 6 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 5 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

NaturalOne (and NDV Server) should consider the relations of Natural Classes

Natural Classes can be edited and be built in Natural One. But the mechanism to catalog an object when a referenced object is changed does not exist for classes. That means that allways when a referended PDA or ODA of a Class is changed we must ch...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 5 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 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 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

NaturalOne Map-Editor with former GUI-Elements

We recently switched our development from Natural Studio into a NaturalONE development. We got told, that Dialog-Objects are not developable in NaturalONE, although we now noticed that you also can't add GUI Elements to Map-Objects and already exi...
Pascale Doose 8 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

Gen DDM using Predict plug-in (private-mode)

While working in Private Mode using NaturalOne, I need to modify an Adabas Numeric field length. I am using Predict plug-in, and then I am generating the DDM. At this stage, only one Natural developer should change the necessary modules in his Pri...
Hezi Shirazi 12 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Future consideration

Mapping Natural Server using the environment name.

We work with about 10 different environments, which include Test environments, QA environments, and Production environments, all on the same MF. Mapping Natural Server to an environment is done by referring to the Host Name & Port Number for t...
Menashe Cohen about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Future consideration

Optimize finding "related" object to be cataloged during deployment

With very large applications the time it takes to analyze an the application to decide which sources have to be cataloged when a set up sources has been modified and uploaded.It seems that the current routine is optimized for "small" sets of sourc...
Jesper Orland about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 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 about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Future consideration