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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

Allow time range for REVIEW functions

Viewing History allows both date & time ranges, but compressing or deleting history has no time range option. I planned an hourly job using REVIEWB HISTORY to send the most recent hour of a large report to GDG, then DELHIST to delete that hour...
Daniel Geary almost 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New

AEZ Support for Quantum Safe Algorithms

In 2022 the NIST published the first 4 quantum resistant Algorithms. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms and in Aug 2023 announced 3 of these are expected to be ready i...
Neil Quigley 12 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

Introduce parallelism when using MultiDB feature

For now, when we use multiDB feature, the DBs are queried sequentially wich lead to poor performance when the number of DB arises. It should be usefull to make the queries in parallel on each DB of the pool. By example, an algorithm like "K-WAY me...
Didier Rigoli about 1 year ago in CONNX 1 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

Layout Painter to not remove comments in XML

Layout Painter editor removes comments in the XML. This would help with adding comments in the xml for documentation purposes.
Jeffrey Empaces about 2 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 2 years 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