Skip to Main Content
The Adabas & Natural Ideas Portal does not contain ideas from products ApplinX and EntireX. Please refer to the IBM Ideas Portal for these products (IBMid required).
ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

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 over 1 year 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 almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Layout Painter to not remove comments in XML

Layout Painter editor removes comments in the XML. This would help with adding comments in the xml for documentation purposes.
Jeffrey Empaces almost 4 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Future consideration

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 about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under development

Snippet Library for Ajax Layout Samples

Sometimes you want to add some specific user interface snippets like an input group with error marking, help icons as popovers and small information text for your end-users to your layout page. Or you want to simply apply a specific icon - like a ...
Christine Zimmermann about 2 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 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 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under development

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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 about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

placeholder support in other controls

The responsive BMOBILE:FFIELD has a placeholder property. The non-responsive FIELD control currently does not have a placeholder property. In the non-responsive FIELD you could use the title property for showing a corresponding tooltip. The FIELD ...
Dana Sherbondy about 4 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 1 Not in Plan