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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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

adavfy on LUW

add Timestamp to output: %ADAVFY-I-INDSTR, Index verification %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, NI: used: 210, free: 1773, reusage: 17, lost: 0 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, UI: used: 1, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost: 1 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, MI: used: 9, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost:...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

handle db connection with rpc server

Hi, In our environment we are using REST API to access Natural RPC servers. I have noticed that the RPC process isn’t closing its db (adabas) connections. Using ADAOPR DI=UQ_FILE I saw that NATRPC is still holding files that a request that had ran...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 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 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

Allow (CV=) after a literal string

Natural allows the use of dynamic control variables during INPUT and WRITE. BUT: the use of those (CV=<control_variable>) is restricted to a variable, not to a literal text. If you want to have a different visual behavior for a string, you m...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under Review

SYNP details in Plog

Plog adarec regenerate tells "Re-execute" and only gives, e.g., ADAINV INVERT=145,FIELD=XX without any details of parts this field XX should be built. This may make Plog useless unless some trail of invert job is kept. It would be nice to have ful...
Arnis Avots almost 2 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review

Make the invalid date popup disappear if the field is selected instead of the popup

When an invalid date is added to a date control a popup message appears to the user telling them the date is not valid. The user should click on the popup window before making the correction to the date control to make the popup message disappear....
Darsh Cook almost 4 years ago in JIS & JI / JIS 0 Not in Plan

Examine command new options

Add new features for Examine command: Let assume I have a string dynamic array: #str (a/1:6) dynamic const <"10","1","31","20","2","21"> I want to search for the string "1" in that array, so I want to get index 2 that it is exactly the same ...
Hezi Shirazi about 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 4 Not in Plan
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