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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

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 7 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Show DS block usage for a file reading only DSST.

If you want to know how much space is available in the used DS blocks of a big file - ADADRU will read all used DS blocks and use much resources. Instead, make a function in ADADRU or SYSAOS to get this information from just the DSST elements of t...
Bjarne Soerensen 7 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Feature to shut down REPTOR waiting first for all source nuclei to disconnect

Issuing ADAEND to a REPTOR should not be done before the connected source nuclei have ended. When shutting down a production environment (typically before an IPL) - you can automate that the source nuclei (EG DB1,DB2,DB3) tasks have ended before A...
Bjarne Soerensen 7 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 7 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

opentelemetry

It will be best when Adabas will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 7 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 New

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi 7 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 New

ADASEL: Increase DDEXPA DD cards to maximum of 99, similar to ASSO & DATA DD Cards

We are managing VLDB ADABAS database serving the population of the country. Our national Database contains more than 150 ADABAS Files. Many a times, we are tasked with producing transactional investigations using multiple large Protection Logs ag...
Zaffer Khan 7 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 New

Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM): TotalUC#2 new Use count field for depicting Level-1 executions of natural objects

Under Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM), we noticed while investigating a performance issue in production that when a Natural Object has multi-level, the TotalUC value for the primary object is a cumulative sum of all the sub-routines being called. Th...
Zaffer Khan 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

NaturalOne Map-Editor with former GUI-Elements

We recently switched our development from Natural Studio into a NaturalONE development. We got told, that Dialog-Objects are not developable in NaturalONE, although we now noticed that you also can't add GUI Elements to Map-Objects and already exi...
Pascale Doose 8 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration