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Adarep free_space to show free percentage.

The adarep free_space list should at the end show the amount and percentage of combined free space in the container - like shown in the attached file. This would save me time when checking that none of the many databases risk running full.
Bjarne Soerensen 11 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 New

adasel: getting actual lob field reference

//DDSIIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=QSYSCM.DB004.PLOG.D220411 //DDCARD DD * ADARUN PROG=ADASEL,DB=004,SVC=235,DE=8393,DSF=YES /* //DDKARTE DD * SELECT ALL RECORDS FROM FILE 2811 WITH ISN = 11119 DISPLAY ALL END // instead of just giving the text 'lob field...
Ernst Chvatal over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 3 New

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

Allow for I8 datatype

OpenSystems hardware has it for a long time, z/Series has it for quite a while now, so by now there is no platform NOT natively supporting 64-bit arithmetic. So please introduce an I8 datatype into Natural - on all supported platforms (and NOC as ...
Wolfgang Winter over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

High Watermarks - Date and Time in Shutdown-statistic

AOS shows 'High Watermarks - Date and Time' via S(elect). We would like to see the same Information in the nucleus-shutdown-statistic.
Reiner Koester over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under development

Dynamic load of STPNAT module.

Would it be possible in z/OS to enable Natural to dynamically load STPNAT module (for example, via RCA= ). If this can be done we can decouple the Natural Nucleus from a dependency of STPNAT, and be less concerned when an STPNAT zap needs to be ap...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

EP#5820 modification of files

modification of files Requestor: D'ARVA SOCIETE Platform: MF SR-Number: 707497 Product Code: ADA Initial Importance: medium Proposal: To access (and update/store) ADABAS data on the mainframe from our Web server, we use EntireX servers (as STCs) w...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 1 Planned

Mapping Natural Server using the environment name.

We work with about 10 different environments, which include Test environments, QA environments, and Production environments, all on the same MF. Mapping Natural Server to an environment is done by referring to the Host Name & Port Number for t...
Menashe Cohen 12 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Future consideration

ADABAS-Utilities: LPB-Limit 32 k too small

The Prefetch Buffer Size (LPB) for utilities is too small (max. 32K). We start a NATURAL-Batch-program with a multi-fetch-buffer (ADARUN PREFSBL = Single-Buffer-Length) of 4.600.000. In this Case we need about 5000 Calls to read a file with 2,3 ...
Reiner Koester almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Scalability / Usability / Utilities 3 Planned

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