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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 5 months 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 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

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 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

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

AND, OR, XOR for binary fields

It is currently not possible to do any "binary" operation on binary fields, like AND, OR, XOR or NOT. This makes declarations of particular bit-constants quasi useless, e.g. ... 3 #TB_VDT_FLAG (B01) /* various property flags...1 #TB_VDT_FLAG_VALUE...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Need the SYSOBJH Statistics user-exit to get stats of each library separately.

Need the SYSOBJH Statistics user-exit to get stats of each Natural library separately. Currently, It returns the statistics of the complete SYSOBJH command used.
Arun Thomas Abraham almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

(Super Natural) Enhance to handle file updates in transactions

In Super Natural we have a large number of files defined. We are constantly updating those file definitions. We add/update/delete fields with new releases of our application. Currently there is no elegant way to get the updates into Super Natural....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Allow Edit Masks to be named constants

Natural provide the "Edit Mask"-feature which is most useful. I would like to see an improvement in using this feature. Currently, the Edit Mask must explicitly specified when used. If you have big applications the used Edit Mask are dispersed in ...
Christian Held over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Weitere Werte für Parameter DBUPD

Der Paramter DBUPD zusätzlich noch weitere Werte zur Steuerung des Verhaltens bei Datenbankupdates erhalten: Vorschlag: - DBUPD=ON -> so wie jetzt - ganz normale DB-UPDATES- DBUPD=OFF -> so wie jetzt - generiert Warnung (ev. Synonym DBUPD=WA...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Provide SIZEOF( dataitem ) to determine the storage size of dataitem

Natural defines a set of "Application Related System Variables". To give an example: *LBOUND() and *UBOUND()can be used to determine the lower and upper bound of an array. If you have to answer the question "how much bytes are used for a dataitem?...
Christian Held over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan