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PQC Quantum Safe Products

Please provide road map for PQC capabilities for Natural and add-ons PQC Strategic Supplier RFI Questions PQC Strategic Supplier RFI Questions What is the core service type of the product you provide to JPMC? What is the platform type of the p...
Ben Anstee 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 New

Cross Reference Generation Without Blocking SYSMAIN Copy

Using new SYSSEC Cross-reference option "B" would Always Generate XREF data during Catalog or Stow to be certain we will create it if we can. It would not prevent Copying or Moving Objects into the Library which are simply missing XREF. The SYSMA...
Rick Poirier about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 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 10 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) / Utilities 0 Planned

Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM): TotalUC#2 new Use count field for depicting Level-1 executions of natural objects

Under Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM), we noticed while investigating a performance issue in production that when a Natural Object has multi-level, the TotalUC value for the primary object is a cumulative sum of all the sub-routines being called. Th...
ZAFFER KHAN over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 4 Planned

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 about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

Automatic verification of a zaps Pre-req.

Natural and other product zaps regularly have prerequisites for example; * *+ZAP:NA93002 * -------- (C) Software AG, Darmstadt/Germany, 2012 -------- * ---------------- Release Date: 01.Nov.2012 --------------- * PRODUCT: NAT823 * PREREQ. : NA9222...
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Allow for I8 datatype

OpenSystems hardware has it for a long time, z/Series has it for quite a while now, so by now there is no platform NOT natively supporting 64-bit arithmetic. So please introduce an I8 datatype into Natural - on all supported platforms (and NOC as ...
Wolfgang Winter about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

Natural RPC - Buffer pool closing procedure

Having defined a NTBPI macro with: GBP, SEQ=0 and LBP, SEQ=1, if GBP is closed while the Natural sesión is active, Natural attemps to connect the LBP. But for a Natural RPC it doesn't work in the same way. In our installation we have configured AL...
Jose Dario Rudz over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Seperate passphrase checks from settings for password

Passphrase checks only works if "User password history" is set to Y or *As there is no reason to combinate passphrase with password settings, it would be better to seperate this.
Christina Möllenberg 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review