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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 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

Common License File

I think it would be good if all keys for subscribed products by company could be bundled into one file.That would save time and work
Tatjana Sawtschenko 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS 1 Under Review

Editor Buffer Pool management of Recovery Files

Most of the Natural applicative programmers do not delete their Recovery Files - which results from time to time in an overflowed EBP. My suggestion is to: (a) Make a timeout parameter for Recovery Files as well (same as FTOUT for Logical Files). ...
Noam Eliyahu 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

Introduce User-Defined Data Types

There is a SAG strategie (or statement)called "ADABAS & NATURAL 2050+" Based on this I would like to have "User-Defined Data Types". I assume that the audience is familiar with this concept. When NATURAL was introduced it was called a 4-GL lan...
Christian Held over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

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 12 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

Allow String-Separator for SET DEFAULTSERVER in ALTER DATABASE DDL-Statement

We work in an IBM environment loading DDL using the ACEINT Utility. The Utility request input witch LREC=80. To cover this limitation, some Statements allow a string to be separated using the '+' Char. Example: CONNECT TO 'DD=RTE_PROD_TI;GATEWAY=c...
Christian Held about 1 year ago in CONNX 0 Under Review

Show which ADABAS-fields are defined as a descriptor in query building tools

The software engineers should have an easy access get the information, which fields are indexes fields. This information could be provided in the field list of a query builder (infonaut, jdbc test application, ...) with an additional column
Martin Walzl about 1 year ago in CONNX 1 Future consideration

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 about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

NSC Password Phrase without Natural ICU Handler

It should be possible to use NSC password phrase for logon even if the „Natural ICU handler“ is not available / activated. Changing old applications to CFICU=ON is not always possible.
Christina Möllenberg about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned
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