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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

Call Java from Natural

To succeed with Jopaz at our existing Natural customers, who use Cobol in parallel, we need the possibility to call Java from Natural. The reason is that Jopaz-compiled Cobol applications run as Java applications. Natural is used to call Cobol, ou...
Wolfgang Heß 6 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Allow "*" instead of blanks for a non-display field (in maps, INPUT stmt, etc.).

The field attribute AD=N can be used to define a field in a map, an INPUT statement or other output statements as non-display. Any value entered in the field will not be displayed. Instead, blanks will be displayed. However, asterisks should be di...
Georg Schmitt about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) / Utilities 0 New

Improve logging in RPC servers

We use logs created by RPC-servers to log the elaps time of RPC services, service by service. But the log shows only the time in full seconds, we would like this time to be given in milliseconds. We use these 4 lines: B *** Return from listen at 2...
Jesper Orland 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Support separate work files in RPC server with multiple tasks

When starting a RPC server with mutiple tasks (NTASK > 1) you risk NAT1502 if you access a work file from one of these tasks, if this access "collides" with access from another of the tasks.If you could tell which of the task you where under, e...
Jesper Orland 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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

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 12 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 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 about 1 year 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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 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
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