Ideas

Enhance Hyperdescriptor Exit for Natural Mainframe Server to cover other areas too

With Natural 9.1.2 we introduced a hyperdescriptor exit NATHX15 to improve the performance when reading Natural object names on a Mainframe server.This exit was enhanced with Natural 9.2.1 to also fast read Natural library names. It should be cons...

Stefan Diehl almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Utilities 0 Planned

3 VOTE

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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

1 VOTE

Use underscore in numbers as separator

This only concerns programming, not execution. And also any platform (mainframe, LUW). When you need to code large numbers in a program, you can only use the decimal point to separate digits between the integer and fraction part. But if you want t...

Philippe Van Coppenolle 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

1 VOTE

Debug: allow display of structures

When you want to display the content of a structure, you get a messageVariables of this type may be neither displayed nor modified. Structures should at least be considered equal to (Ax) or (Bx), so that it should be possible to display their whol...

Philippe Van Coppenolle 12 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 0 Future consideration

2 VOTE

Command interface to LIST XREF in a subprogram

Just like SYSMAIN has a MAINUSER subprogram interface for direct commands, it would be very useful to have the same for LIST XREF. Right now, we are limited to accessing SYSDIC ourselves, using TEST DBLOG to figure out how you guys do it, then cop...

Claes Norreen almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 6 Future consideration

5 VOTE

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

5 VOTE

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 about 5 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

5 VOTE

Introduce User-Defined Data Types

There is a SAG strategie (or statement)called "ADABAS & NATURAL 2050+" Based on this I would like to have "User-Defined Data Types". I assume that the audience is familiar with this concept. When NATURAL was introduced it was called a 4-GL lan...