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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

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 8 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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) 3 Under Review

can NATRPC39 be called after sending response?

Currently NATRPC39 is called before a reply to an RPC request is sent to Broker. If this could be moved to after the reply is sent, it would reduce the impact on performance for RPC calls by doing the NATRPC39 exit work after the reply was sent on...
Douglas Kelly 9 months 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

Regular expressions in logical condition

We would like to use regular expressions in logical conditions. E.g. IF <#VAR> = REGEX (.*search_text_1.*\..*search_text_2)
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review