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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 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Stored procedure and triggers (LUW)

the trigger function is not available in Adabas on LUW. We want to execute actions if the content of an adabas field is changed. --- Rerouting to Linux. Was: LUW
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting 0 Future consideration

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

Adarep free_space to show free percentage.

The adarep free_space list should at the end show the amount and percentage of combined free space in the container - like shown in the attached file. This would save me time when checking that none of the many databases risk running full.
Bjarne Sørensen almost 2 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 New

Editor Buffer Pool management of Recovery Files

Most of the Natural applicative programmers do not delete their Recovery Files - which results from time to time in an overflowed EBP. My suggestion is to: (a) Make a timeout parameter for Recovery Files as well (same as FTOUT for Logical Files). ...
Noam Eliyahu 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Cross Platform Convert (PLOG Solaris to Linux)

If possible, we would like to generate a Solaris (Spark) to Linux PLOG converter, so that these files can be read from Linux, just as we can process the files generated with the Backup utility.
Lourdes Camarero de Diego over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 1 Not in Plan

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT .It can be similar to the existing SCAN tool. The replace function is not required and may be a bit dangerous. This way we can search all source code for a specific string, be...
Dana Sherbondy over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

Introduce User-Defined Data Types

There is a SAG strategie (or statement)called "ADABAS & NATURAL 2050+" Based on this I would like to have "User-Defined Data Types". I assume that the audience is familiar with this concept. When NATURAL was introduced it was called a 4-GL lan...
Christian Held over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Support server names and userid’s longer than 8 characters in display

Customer got Windows server names longer than 8 characters and in many cases they only differ beyond the 8th character. Also user id’s longer than 8 characters may be used. This makes it impossible to distinguish between the sessions in displays...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Planned

Avoid database corruption by second nucleus start.

If the database resides in remote or mirrored disks - it could happen that a second nucleus comes up on the same database container files and does an autorestart which will corrupt the database. Introduce fail-safe measures to detect and avoid thi...
Bjarne Sørensen almost 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under development