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NSC: Allow / Disallow modules in steplib

If a Natural module exists in a library AND one of its steplibs, it should be possible to DISALLOW the module in the library and ALLOW it in the steplib (or vice versa).
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Not in Plan

NAT: Numeric target operands in SEPARATE statement desired

Unfortunately it is not possible with the SEPARATE statement to assign numeric values directly to numeric target fields. Message: NAT0240 Operand format invalid. Format A, B or U expected. So, sometimes laborious redefinitions are necessary. It wo...
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

FIND NUMBER RECORDS ...

Background: Currently, Natural has no "generic" way to find the number of records loaded in an Adabas file. Natural must always use the name of a file-specific descriptor which is "known to be populated for every record". e.g. FIND NUMBER EMPLOYES...
Guest about 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

Adabas REST Administration - install consistency with other Adabas products

Adabas REST Administration uses several non-standard approaches for installation - directory names, location of start/stop routines, naming, etc. One example is the name of the systemd (systemctl) service daemon - it defaults to "adarest_1", when ...
Douglas Kelly about 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability 0 Under Review

Adabas Open System: Utilities should produce xml output

In order to work with Adabas utilities, it would be great to have an option to generate xml output. --- ReRouting to Linux. Was: LUW
Bernhard Siegmann about 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Utilities 0 Future consideration

Higher precision for *CPU-TIME

We need a higher precision for *CPU-TIME so that we can determine the CPU time consumed by individual RPC requests in a batch RPC server. The vast majority of our transactions are faster than 10ms. We currently do this using an assembler program, ...
Alexander Schuster over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

adarep output in xml format on Linux

adarep on Linux should provide the feature of giving the output in xml format, like the mainframe version does with parameter output=xml. This should be in an Adabas version independent manner as far as possible. We would like to analyse the adaba...
Andreas Heitzer over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

extend Broker logon to all XC functions

using the "LS" function against a Broker from SYSRPC XC function does a pop up prompting for Broker login if EntireX Security is enabled. However, using anything like "PI"ng on a server just gives the error that no logon has been done (even if I'v...
Douglas Kelly almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Layout Painter to not remove comments in XML

Layout Painter editor removes comments in the XML. This would help with adding comments in the xml for documentation purposes.
Jeffrey Empaces almost 4 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Future consideration

Allow spacer element (“1X”) in COMPRESS statement

With a COMPRESS statement the contents of one or more operands (Vari or Const) can be concatenated into a single target field. Beside some other options, two different clauses are available to determine the value separation behavior. (1) With LEAV...
Thomas Frischmann about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under development