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option to not include data format/length when importing data fields

when using the Advanced Edit option to Insert Data Fields, the length and format (e.g. "(A1)" is always included, even for DDM fields. An option should be available to suppress these lengths and formats for fields that inherit the length/format fr...
Douglas Kelly about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

Remove Natural file number limit

It does not make sense that a supported version ofOpen Systems Natural or any Natural utility (I.E. SYSDDM) would have a limitationwhere afile number would need to be 5000 or less whenOpen SystemsAdabas has not had that limitation for a long time....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Predict (PRD) 0 Planned

Stow in debug perspective

It should be possible to stow NATURAL objects also in the debug perspective. The icons are actual inactive.
Reiner Koester over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

Nukleus-Shutdown-Statistic: Show Average Duration of Commands

AOS shows 'Average Duration' on the 'Command Usage'-Screen. We would like to see the same Information in the nucleus-shutdown-statistic.
Reiner Koester over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability 0 Planned

avoid "ADARSP074 - LWKP2 too small" for 24*7 databases

After Adasav restore of a very large file, and running an application to this file, the application received ADARSP074. This happened because LWKP2 was not set and Adabas calculates this part at startup(using the TOPISN of the largest file). The n...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Planned

Port NaturalONE as a Visual Studio Code Extension

Create a Visual Studio Code extension to support the development of Natural language. Also integrate all current NaturalONE functionality like NDV support, WebIO execution, etc.
Martin Basso almost 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 4 Planned

New System-Variable UUID

Currently, we use *TIMESTMP(X) as a unique reference and foreign key in database-files. To be able to generate unique keys for the database entries, even in the case of distributed Natural-installations (in the future clusters or via entire networ...
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

Allow spacer element (“1X”) in COMPRESS statement

With a COMPRESS statement the contents of one or more operands (Vari or Const) can be concatenated into a single target field. Beside some other options, two different clauses are available to determine the value separation behavior. (1) With LEAV...
Thomas Frischmann 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

EP#5820 modification of files

modification of files Requestor: D'ARVA SOCIETE Platform: MF SR-Number: 707497 Product Code: ADA Initial Importance: medium Proposal: To access (and update/store) ADABAS data on the mainframe from our Web server, we use EntireX servers (as STCs) w...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 1 Planned

ADABAS-Utilities: LPB-Limit 32 k too small

The Prefetch Buffer Size (LPB) for utilities is too small (max. 32K). We start a NATURAL-Batch-program with a multi-fetch-buffer (ADARUN PREFSBL = Single-Buffer-Length) of 4.600.000. In this Case we need about 5000 Calls to read a file with 2,3 ...
Reiner Koester about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Scalability / Usability / Utilities 3 Planned