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’Natural Log File (.LOG)’ and ’Trace File (.TRC)’ name options for more granularity

Please make it possible to have the option to have process-id and timestamp included into these file names. Today for .LOG files you may have the process-id included but only if ETID was set to $$. Also the uniqueness of the file name today may ...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Command "L EXT" in NATURAL/AIX/LNX.

In NATURAL/AIX/LNX: Implementcommand "l ext" to show the extended name of the subroutine. This command exists in NATURAL Mainframe.- NATURAL/ZOS Example: NEXT l ext * LIB=RCELSO ---------------------------------------------------------------------...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

NAT: Numeric target operands in SEPARATE statement desired

Unfortunately it is not possible with the SEPARATE statement to assign numeric values directly to numeric target fields. Message: NAT0240 Operand format invalid. Format A, B or U expected. So, sometimes laborious redefinitions are necessary. It wo...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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

handle db connection with rpc server

Hi, In our environment we are using REST API to access Natural RPC servers. I have noticed that the RPC process isn’t closing its db (adabas) connections. Using ADAOPR DI=UQ_FILE I saw that NATRPC is still holding files that a request that had ran...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

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

Collapse on IF, ELSE and VALUE (DECIDE)

When you collapse an IF-Statement, the ELSE is collapsed, too. This at first glance, looks like the code of the ELSE is the code of the IF itself. When you collapse a DECIDE Statement, the whole Decide-Structure is collapsed, which is fine. If you...
Michael Greven over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Include runtime identification in Profiler report tab

When running multiple Profiler sessions to test variations in a program (to see performance impact of changes), each profiler report opens with the same tab name "<program>[<library>]". Would be helpful to have at least a date/time (si...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Under Review

Enable "Coverage As" to work the same as "Profile As" and "Debug As"

Currently, to use the Coverage profiling feature, you have to add in additional runtime parameters ("coverage=(active=on,reslib=xxx,resname=yyy)"), but adding these types of options are not required for Profiler or Debugger run options.
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 0 Under Review