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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 7 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 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 8 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Replicate Empty Adabas File To An Empty Table in SQL Database

Activating replication for an empty Adabas file will not lead to the creation of an empty SQL Server table. Only when the first record is put into the Adabas file, the SQL table will be created (and a row inserted). This doesn't sound right, don't...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Target Adapter (ART) 0 Under Review

Decrypt NSC records from PLOG

From SI-505073, create a utility to allow the decryption of NSC records after they have been extracted from a PLOG. This would be an alternative / secondary way to retrieve modifications to the FSEC when the NSC logging records are not available. ...
Chad Scott over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv almost 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 about 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

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

ONE: XREF data and private-mode libraries

If XREF ON is set for a library which is used in private mode,then Xref data are also generated for the modules in the private-mode library that belongs to this library. This is superfluous. Reasons: - Logon to a private-mode library is not possib...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review