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Sort of ARRAYs

We would like to be able to sort tables according to a defined field of the table via a simple statement: SORT ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#SORT-FIELD>
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Regular expressions in logical condition

We would like to use regular expressions in logical conditions. E.g. IF <#VAR> = REGEX (.*search_text_1.*\..*search_text_2)
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

on-error-cmd

Hi as we have on error cmd in a module level, it will be very helpful to have same upon a cmd level (such as in java/c$/python & etc: try/catch)
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 2 years 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Re-Hosting / Usability 0 Not in Plan

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 about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review
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