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Support process id as variable for print and workfiles

Support process id as variable for print and workfiles Example - this invoke of Natural: natrt.exe BATCHMODE CMPRINT="C:\CMPRINT *PID.LOG" CMPRT01="C:\CMPRT01 *PID.LOG" CMWRK01="C:\CMWRK01 *PID.TXT" and if process id is '4711' CMPRINT becomes "C:\...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Printing DRIVES & DATASET info., when ADAREP is run against a SAVETAPE

We have very old backups on VTS tape system with multipledatasets (DRIVES ranging from 3-8). To know the state of the backup we ran ADAREP SAVETAPEagainst a 2007 Backup dataset, which was taken with DRIVES=3. And followinginformation is listed at ...
Zaffer Khan over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 1 Planned

Extend Natural Objectnames to 32 Byte

Natural Newbees are shocked, when they find out, that Objectnames in Natural are maximum 8 Bytes long. It is like DOS in the 90ties. So Natural should allow Objectnames to 32 Byte (Natural for Open Systems), An alternative would be, to extend the ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Include Process ID in DBMS tracing files (.TRC)

Please include Process ID in DBMStracing files (.TRC) like it is included in the .LOG file. .TRC file (here it is NOT included): ************************************************************************* * * NATURALtrace file for ADABAS calls * * V...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

’Natural Log File (.LOG)’ and ’Trace File (.TRC)’ name options for more granularity

Please make it possible to have the option to have process-id and timestamp included into these file names. Today for .LOG files you may have the process-id included but only if ETID was set to $$. Also the uniqueness of the file name today may ...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Command "L EXT" in NATURAL/AIX/LNX.

In NATURAL/AIX/LNX: Implementcommand "l ext" to show the extended name of the subroutine. This command exists in NATURAL Mainframe.- NATURAL/ZOS Example: NEXT l ext * LIB=RCELSO ---------------------------------------------------------------------...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Adadbs Deallocate by cylinders

The DEALLOCATE function of the ADADBS utility is accepting values for the size parameters (ACSIZE | AC2SIZE | DSSIZE | NISIZE | UISIZE) only in units of RABN blocks.Most other utilities and functions allow the provision of size values in blocks or...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned