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Online reorder of data should not write gigabytes on p-log

Stop or make optional the writing of records moved by online reorder to the protection log. do this to reduce the critical recovery time (restore and regenerate). When you do an online reorder of an Adabas file in a given descriptor sequence the r...
Bjarne Soerensen about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

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 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

Natural Command Console for Mainframes on the Linux

The usability of NaturalONE is obviously constrained since there is no Command Console available in NaturalONE where NDV is NOT mainframe.
Richard Zollner over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Under Review

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 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

Copy SYSOUT Files not only to BS2000 Nodes, but to Linux Nodes also

In 'Job maintenance', for Unix and Windows jobs, it is possible to define a handover of SYSOUT files from the execution system to a BS2000 system. This is done by setting a 'SYSOUT node' (together with a 'SYSOUT Cat ID' and a 'SYSOUT User ID') in ...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 1 year ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operation (NOP) 0 Under development

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

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 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

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 about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Predict (PRD) 0 Planned

Securing online Event Replicator functions

As suggested in Support Incident 5220314, we would like to use ADASAF to secure Event Replicator Subsystem functions as is currently done with AOS. Specifically, we would like to secure access to SYSRPTR, as well as Administration Functions - Data...
Guest about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) / Security 0 Under development

Invoking ADABAS SAFfunctionality in batch

It would be useful to have the abiltiy to perform ADABAS SAF functons, such as Display SAF Statistics or Refresh User Stats and Cashed Files or Logoff User or Restart Server, in batch. This could be implemented via ADADBS options or NATURALAPIto A...
Guest about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas SAF Security (AAF) / Security 0 Under Review