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ONE: E_0285 MOVE ALL with SUBSTRING option

The SUBSTRING function in MOVE ALL has not yet been implemented in Natural LUW and ONE.The statement MOVE ALL 'string' TO SUBSTR(field,n,m) results in the following errors: NAT0285 Field reference error; reference invalid or missing. (Natural)E_02...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Remove the library listing upper limit (500), or set the value to a much higher one, such as 10000.

One of our Natural customers has over 800 libraries under FUSER. I recently learned that the maximum number displayed in the Listing is 500. Because of that, the customer has to explicitly specify the library name rather than typing the first ch...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

API needed to convert the ONE line numbers of error messages

API needed to convert the ONE line numbers in error messages into the according source line numers on server. Spod works with logical line numbers (incremental steps 10/5/2/1 ). NaturalONE works with real line numbers (incremental step 1). If an e...
Andreas Dege over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Better access to data from profiler

When using profiler to analyze an online transaction, the collected data is presented in a fixed format in a graphical view. I would like to further analyze the data, This could be done by allowing me tounload the data, e.g. to a .csv file. This...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Planned

Prevent NAT1326 with MOVE...TO SUBSTRING with DYNAMIC variables

PROBLEM: =======The following program will get a Runtime error NAT1326: * see Software AG Support Incident 113138 ...DEFINE DATA LOCAL1 #A (A) DYNAMIC1 #COL (I2) INIT <1> (EM=ZZ9)1 #I (I2) (EM=ZZ9)END-DEFINE*EXPAND DYNAMIC VARIABLE #A TO 500...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

NAT: Comparison with UNICODE Superdescriptor

Compare of a UNICODE Superdescriptor (of an Adabas file) against a key that is composed identically does not work correctly when the comparison is executed by Natural. This affects the following statement:READ ... ENDING AT HISTOGRAM ... ENDING AT...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Parameter and Local Variables for Inline Subroutines

Since I´ve been programming Natural (30 Years!) I miss the possibility to give my Natural Programs a good structure by defining exactly the scope of variables used in inline subroutines as it is possible in all established programming languages li...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

USR8210N additional parameter field for filename by function start

Natural parametermodul contains no value in parameterfield "RESNAME", filename for profileing information will be automatically generated (current userID and timestamp). The profileing process is controlled by the SAG routine USR8210N with start/p...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Natural Engineer NEA Display Modification

The Show overview of an application creates 3 new pages, showApp,listSCC & Object Summary. These are all aligned so they cover the preceding page. It would be better if the pages werecascaded to show the title of each page.This way any page co...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

"Ant-script" mode - Projects/Steplibs search

In "Ant-script" mode, we can't run Unit Test when NSAs and NSNs are in 2 projects, sometimes in the same library name, and in "Steplib" library in another project too. So, "run.cmd" doesn't work :[testsuite] Exception: Could not load contents of d...
Caroline Leve over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review