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Higher precision for *CPU-TIME

We need a higher precision for *CPU-TIME so that we can determine the CPU time consumed by individual RPC requests in a batch RPC server. The vast majority of our transactions are faster than 10ms. We currently do this using an assembler program, ...
Alexander Schuster 3 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 New

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 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 6 Future consideration

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 about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Utilities 0 Planned

Identify which skeleton's are used when JCL is generated in SMA

When JCL is generated for a JOB in SMA, we do not know which SKELETON's are being used. If we need to customize the SKELETON to meet customer standards then we have to hunt for the right skeleton that was pulled in. What I ended up doing was addin...
Raul Chiriboga 10 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

extend Broker logon to all XC functions

using the "LS" function against a Broker from SYSRPC XC function does a pop up prompting for Broker login if EntireX Security is enabled. However, using anything like "PI"ng on a server just gives the error that no logon has been done (even if I'v...
Douglas Kelly 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

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 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

Automatic verification of a zaps Pre-req.

Natural and other product zaps regularly have prerequisites for example; * *+ZAP:NA93002 * -------- (C) Software AG, Darmstadt/Germany, 2012 -------- * ---------------- Release Date: 01.Nov.2012 --------------- * PRODUCT: NAT823 * PREREQ. : NA9222...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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

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