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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 about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

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

Decrypt NSC records from PLOG

From SI-505073, create a utility to allow the decryption of NSC records after they have been extracted from a PLOG. This would be an alternative / secondary way to retrieve modifications to the FSEC when the NSC logging records are not available. ...
Chad Scott over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

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 over 4 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 over 4 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 over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

Snippet Library for Ajax Layout Samples

Sometimes you want to add some specific user interface snippets like an input group with error marking, help icons as popovers and small information text for your end-users to your layout page. Or you want to simply apply a specific icon - like a ...
Christine Zimmermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Under Review