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Profiler y Code Coverage

1. Development Process (NaturalONE) Code Coverage: According to the documentation (after several redirections in this documentation), it is not possible to use the Code Coverage from NaturalONE in Online mode in Mainframe environments. To use it f...
Fernando Díaz over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 1 Future consideration

Function "ODD()"

If you want to know if a number is odd or even, you can do the following now: IF #I <> #I / 2 * 2 THEN ... END-IF This takes however quite a bit of CPU, but it can already by simplified by following declarations: 1 #I (I4)1 REDEFINE #I 2 FIL...
Philippe Van Coppenolle about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

NOP: Export Feature Schedule Definition

Comment of the requester Herr Schneider on 2023-07-25: From my point of view, there is no need for the change we want for the other customers, but there is also no contradiction. Therefore, from my point of view, the change could be analysed furth...
Georg Schmitt about 1 year ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operation (NOP) / Entire Operations GUI client (OGC) 0 Future consideration

Mainframe Navigation needs additional features

Mainframe Navigation view (which requires Entire System Server on the mainframe) needs more features to be really useful. Some examples: Jobs list should include a date/time when job ended (inactive) or was submitted (Active Jobs tree) view of a J...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / Usability 0 Future consideration

AND, OR, XOR for binary fields

It is currently not possible to do any "binary" operation on binary fields, like AND, OR, XOR or NOT. This makes declarations of particular bit-constants quasi useless, e.g. ... 3 #TB_VDT_FLAG (B01) /* various property flags...1 #TB_VDT_FLAG_VALUE...
Philippe Van Coppenolle over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

A context menu function "set flags" similar to "reset flags"

In some cases it is nessesary to mark objects as changed, to force the "build project"-function to update the natural server.
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

Clear lock files on Linux boot to avoid system downs.

If - after a UNIX/Linux boot - there are lock files left behind in /tmp these files may cause all attempts to start Natural to fail with startup error 35 . There are many product support incidents for this problem - many of these indicate that com...
Bjarne Soerensen over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Define INDEPENDENT-variablen in LDAs

Hi, I would like to define INDEPENDENT-variablen in a separte file, like LDAs vor lokal variable. So I could define the indeoendent-variables once and could integrate them with DEFINE DATA INDEPENDENT USING XYZ END-DEFINE Best regards, Markus Weßj...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Natural Editor - Change Tile Vertically behaviour

I would expect choosing 'Tile Vertically' that all open program, LDA etc. windows are tiled while maximizing vertical space over horizontal space. However, I can stretch my Natural editor over several screens (5760 x 1080) and the tiling does not ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

Format Length Conflict

Bei Unstimmigkeiten zwischen LDA und Adapter bekomme ich eine Meldung "Format/length conflict". (Dort wird mir ganz einfach die Nummer des Adapter-Parameters angegeben.) Geben Sie doch bitte den Namen des Adapter-Parameters aus. Die Software weiss...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE 0 Future consideration