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(Super Natural) Enhance to handle file updates in transactions

In Super Natural we have a large number of files defined. We are constantly updating those file definitions. We add/update/delete fields with new releases of our application. Currently there is no elegant way to get the updates into Super Natural....
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Allow Edit Masks to be named constants

Natural provide the "Edit Mask"-feature which is most useful. I would like to see an improvement in using this feature. Currently, the Edit Mask must explicitly specified when used. If you have big applications the used Edit Mask are dispersed in ...
Christian Held about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

[RBAC] database level file permissions (with object ranges)

It would be helpful to be able to provide permissions for all files in a database (update for dba roles, read for auditors, for example) rather than having to enumerate every permission for every file for each applicable role - something like: gra...
Douglas Kelly about 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration

[RBAC] Option to log using server timezone rather than UTC

Please update the logging for Adabas RBAC to use the server's timezone rather than UTC. It makes it confusing to compare logs across products when they use different timezones.
Douglas Kelly about 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security / Usability 1 Future consideration

adatst does not mask / hide password for sec_pswd

When ADAPARLOG=YES, the adatst utility echoes the password to the console, making it awkward to script tests. Can this be optionally (preferably by default) masked? %ADATST-I-STARTED, 23-DEC-2020 15:31:02, Version 6.7.1.6 (Linux 64Bit) adatst: dbi...
Douglas Kelly about 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Security / Utilities 0 Under Review

improvements when Adabas Cluster failover occurs – topic (1)

NOTE: we cant use Adabas Clustering in a production environments. The issue is from the Natural client side when it connects to Adabas. In Natparm the DB connection points to three nodes, A B and C. When node A gets abruptly stopped the Adabas cli...
Jürgen Lind 4 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas Cluster (ADC) 0 Under Review

ADABAS SQL GATEWAY / CDD administration / a way to retrieve meta data "Last update time"

Hi we operate several system environments (production, test, development etc.). Currently there are 12 environments active. Each environment has its dedicated CDD. Each CDD holds the definition of mutliple applications. The definition for a specif...
Christian Held about 5 years ago in CONNX 0 Not in Plan

Improvement of the Stop behavior on VMS side (statistics usages on log files)

Would it be possible to have a clean stop of Connx binaries on VMS side (+add of system usage statistics of the stopped processes into the log files) instead of having a simple “stop/id” ? For now, when stopping Connx from Linux side and when co...
Stephane Moreau about 5 years ago in CONNX 0 Not in Plan

Having type 3 to be /0 compliant with the ALLOWNULLINCHAR=1

Our needs it to be able to recover data after NULL value when using type 3 "Text Expandable" field and having ALLOWNULLINCHAR enabled. Nowthe data type we are using (Text Expandable), stops at the null terminator (even withALLOWNULLINCHAR=1) Larry...
Stephane Moreau about 5 years ago in CONNX 0 Under development

Connx Exception error code to catch (issue on Open VMS)

Please take into consideration the exchange here below in order to improve the error code of connx. De: McGhaw, Larry [mailto:Larry.McGhaw@softwareag.com] Envoyé: lundi 5 novembre 2018 23:16 À: Jean-Philippe Lutz; MOREAU Stéphane DTSI/DSI Objet: ...
Stephane Moreau about 5 years ago in CONNX 0 Not in Plan