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*TIMESTMP (B8) "overflow"

At 17.09.2042 the B8-Variable *TIMESTMP will be "full". In 23 year; compare it with the difference to year 2000. This variable is important. Is there a plan to solve the problem? In coordination with IBM (Store clock)? *TIMESTMP is use for time me...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Userexit to write SMF records without switching into TCB mode

We have an ongoing Assembler replacement project and want to get rid of a routine which writes SMF records for statistics data. This routine is called around 60 million times a day from RPC transactions. Every call causes a switch from zIIP to the GP
Alexander Schuster almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

JobID in User Exit USR4002N

Please add the JobID of the current runtime environment to USR4002N
Alexander Schuster over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Provide "correct" value in Threadsize maxused

When storaged needed for dynamic variables (eg. DYNVDES) is expanded, a new buffer with the expanded size is allocated and content of the "old" buffer is copied to the new buffer and then the old buffer is released. When calculating the max allowe...
Jesper Orland over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

SHA-256 support required for USR4011

Cu is currently still using USR4011 with SHA-1. Does a Natural user exit exist supporting SHA-256? Or is there another way available to work with SHA-256 in Natural?
Elke Weyand almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Security 0 Released

New Natural System Command, e.g. WHICH <module>, to determine called module

New Natural command idea: " WHICH <module> ". Shall return the library (dbid,fnr), which a called module was loaded from. It could also return the complete search path (all searched libraies, wher the modeule has not been found). It can be h...
Georg Schmitt about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Released

Roll Server threshold notification

When the Natural Roll Server gets close to filling (80%, 90%, etc), it would be beneficial for the Roll Server to produce a message so that we can take action before it fills and locks users out of Natural.
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Monitoring / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

"Newcopy" for 3GL-programs in RPC-Batch Environment

We need a functionality to load new versions of 3GL-programs in a running Batch-RPC server without stopping and restarting the server. Something similar to a newcopy in CICS. We have been told that such a functionality would require a new infrastr...
Alexander Schuster over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

More details for NAT0631 Error message with MOVE BY NAME

Compilation error NAT0631 (and maybe other potential errors) for a MOVE BY Name statement does not include enough details for the specific fields that are wrong, which may become a tedious task to analyze when dealing with large structures with mu...
Sagi Achituv over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Load library of natural-objects

Working with several steplibs is the normal case. Sometimes we want to know, from which natural-library a program was loaded. *LIBRARY-ID doesn't help as it shows the library where the program is executed. In SYSBPM we find the information onlyfor...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released
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