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Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Display of used USIZE of a Natural runtime situation

In a number of stacked Natural Subprograms with some data areas and a number of dynamic variables it can be difficult to calculate the amount of used USIZE. But for the software development strategy it is important to know the amount of size that ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

Increase the MAXUSER limit in NATURAL BP.

Increase the MAXUSER limit The NATURAL BP allows Maximum Users up to 5000. http://documentation.softwareag.com/natural/nat833unx/config/cfg-confparm.htm#cfg-confparm ...Buffer Pool Assignments ...Maximum Users ...Possible settings: 1 - 5000...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

READ..BY ISN...FROM...TO...

Background: Currently, the Natural statement READ...BY ISN does NOT support the TO clause. One must code READ...BY ISN...FROM...THRU/ENDING AT. Yet the Read Logical (eg. READ...BY PERSONNEL-ID) supports FROM and TO. Enhancement Request: Allow the ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

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

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 12 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 4 Not in Plan

Static variables such as *line-counter(rep)

Variables such as *page-num(rep) or *line-counter(rep) should be static, and I will be able toin any modules in process how many pages are already in rep-id and how many line *line-counter(rep) in current page Maybe, there are more variables that ...
Hezi Shirazi about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Expand X-Arrays by variable

We would like to be able to expand tables (X-ARRAYS) via a statement: EXPAND ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#VAR-INT>
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

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 about 1 year 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 over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration