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FIND NUMBER RECORDS ...

Background: Currently, Natural has no "generic" way to find the number of records loaded in an Adabas file. Natural must always use the name of a file-specific descriptor which is "known to be populated for every record". e.g. FIND NUMBER EMPLOYES...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

adavfy on LUW

add Timestamp to output: %ADAVFY-I-INDSTR, Index verification %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, NI: used: 210, free: 1773, reusage: 17, lost: 0 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, UI: used: 1, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost: 1 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, MI: used: 9, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost:...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

Allow wildcard notation “?” inside input edit mask for MOVE EDITED

With the MOVE EDITED statement you can apply an edit mask for Operand1 to output a field of any format (except H/C) into an alpha string (A/U/B) with a specific layout described by the edit mask. The edit mask can be considered as an output edit m...
Thomas Frischmann over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

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

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under Review

SYNP details in Plog

Plog adarec regenerate tells "Re-execute" and only gives, e.g., ADAINV INVERT=145,FIELD=XX without any details of parts this field XX should be built. This may make Plog useless unless some trail of invert job is kept. It would be nice to have ful...
Arnis Avots almost 2 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review

NOP-Monitor-Status Kommandos (Anhalten, Freigeben) gegen die Tasks 51 und 91 ermöglichen

In NOP 5.5.2 (CF 3) ist es nicht möglich, beim NOP-Monitor-Status Kommandos (Anhalten, Freigeben) gegen die Tasks 51 und 91 abzusetzen. Aufgefallen ist das beim Versuch, eine Loop-Situation in der Task 51 aufzulösen. In NOP 5.4.3 ist die Eingabe d...
Walter Schulte over 3 years ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operation (NOP) 0 Planned

Encrypt NSC Password to FIPS 140-3 Compliance

The current standard of encrypting the Natural Security password with Electronic Code Book (ECB) encryption to not comply with IRS standards. Enhance Natural Security so that the NSC password is encrypted to meet FIPS 140-3 compliance.
Gary Athaide about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Filler notation for WRITE WORK FILE

Enhancement Request: Please consider allowing filler notation (nX) with the WRITE WORK FILE statement. Example: WRITE WORK FILE 1 VARIABLE #VAR1 2X #VAR2 5X #VAR3 Reason: Filler notation is intuitive and gives a consistent feel to the language syn...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Adabas REST Administration - install consistency with other Adabas products

Adabas REST Administration uses several non-standard approaches for installation - directory names, location of start/stop routines, naming, etc. One example is the name of the systemd (systemctl) service daemon - it defaults to "adarest_1", when ...
Douglas Kelly over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Under Review
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