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New System-Variable UUID

Currently, we use *TIMESTMP(X) as a unique reference and foreign key in database-files. To be able to generate unique keys for the database entries, even in the case of distributed Natural-installations (in the future clusters or via entire networ...
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

NaturalX add more capabilities

I would to to get much more when trying to use NaturalX to keep data in oo structure. I think, SAG should think about if to continue with NaturalX or to stop. While trying to use it, I found a lot of missing capabilities as I was expected to get w...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

reject with reposition

to improve performance we use Read with reposition, combine with command ESC top Repos... So, the use of Reject command is now useless because it isnt support with Reposition option
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 6 Future consideration

Dynamic Code Covearge Control even after a natural process is running like Profiler

No description provided
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

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 almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Add the option CATALOG to object handler LOAD of TRANSFER format.

Assuming a rehosting freeze period is unwelcome: While the rehosting project is ongoing there is a period where business continues to demand changes and fixes to the Natural application - which is now kept both in the MF and in Linux. When the cha...
Bjarne Soerensen almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Re-Hosting / Usability 0 Not in Plan

Support NATDAS on Linux

more flexible use of natdas, less dependency on Windows for a Linux oriented shop.
Douglas Kelly about 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

Modify map editor background color in Natural Studio

Currently the map editor background in Natural Studio is fixed as a light grey background, which makes reading or seeing text that is white or light yellow almost impossible. This especially becomes an issue when editing maps intended to run in a ...
Chad Scott over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Secure storage/retrieval of passwords such as EXX passwords

Currently, calling secured EntireX services requires calling RPC-CNTX or USR2071N/USR2702N/USR2074N/etc to pass in a user id and password. There's no provision for providing anything other than a clear text password, so it ends up in clear text in...
Douglas Kelly almost 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration
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