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Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT .It can be similar to the existing SCAN tool. The replace function is not required and may be a bit dangerous. This way we can search all source code for a specific string, be...
Dana Sherbondy 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

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 almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Scalability / Usability / Utilities 3 Planned

Allow wildcard notation “?” inside input edit mask for MOVE EDITED

With the MOVE EDITED statement you can apply an edit mask for Operand1 to output a field of any format (except H/C) into an alpha string (A/U/B) with a specific layout described by the edit mask. The edit mask can be considered as an output edit m...
Thomas Frischmann 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

Mapping Natural Server using the environment name.

We work with about 10 different environments, which include Test environments, QA environments, and Production environments, all on the same MF. Mapping Natural Server to an environment is done by referring to the Host Name & Port Number for t...
Menashe Cohen 12 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Future consideration

Allow (CV=) after a literal string

Natural allows the use of dynamic control variables during INPUT and WRITE. BUT: the use of those (CV=<control_variable>) is restricted to a variable, not to a literal text. If you want to have a different visual behavior for a string, you m...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Editor: Collapse of lines with comments

Example: IF INDEX = 1 /* Commentary in Line * Commentary in whole line IGNORE END-IF If you want to collapse the line with the IF-statement-block by clicking minus before the line, the editor will only collapse the line with * at the beginning (co...
Reiner Koester over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Collapse on IF, ELSE and VALUE (DECIDE)

When you collapse an IF-Statement, the ELSE is collapsed, too. This at first glance, looks like the code of the ELSE is the code of the IF itself. When you collapse a DECIDE Statement, the whole Decide-Structure is collapsed, which is fine. If you...
Michael Greven 6 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

ONE: NATstyle: Progress view displays only the library name

During NATstyle the Progress view only displays the name of the library being checked but not the name of the modules. The name of the modules being checked should also be displayed.E.g. in case of an exception (abort) it would be helpful to see w...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Not in Plan

PlugIn to SonarQube

We are using SonarQube for statical code analysisfor all programming languages we use (Java, C++, COBOL) except for Natural, as there is no Natural plugin to SonarQube. Is it possible that Software AG providessuch a plugin? Having allour languages...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Prevent NAT1326 with MOVE...TO SUBSTRING with DYNAMIC variables

PROBLEM: =======The following program will get a Runtime error NAT1326: * see Software AG Support Incident 113138 ...DEFINE DATA LOCAL1 #A (A) DYNAMIC1 #COL (I2) INIT <1> (EM=ZZ9)1 #I (I2) (EM=ZZ9)END-DEFINE*EXPAND DYNAMIC VARIABLE #A TO 500...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan