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Allow wildcard notation “?” inside input edit mask for MOVE EDITED

With the MOVE EDITED statement you can apply an edit mask for Operand1 to output a field of any format (except H/C) into an alpha string (A/U/B) with a specific layout described by the edit mask. The edit mask can be considered as an output edit m...
Thomas Frischmann over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

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

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 about 3 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Future consideration

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under Review

SYNP details in Plog

Plog adarec regenerate tells "Re-execute" and only gives, e.g., ADAINV INVERT=145,FIELD=XX without any details of parts this field XX should be built. This may make Plog useless unless some trail of invert job is kept. It would be nice to have ful...
Arnis Avots over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review

Encrypt NSC Password to FIPS 140-3 Compliance

The current standard of encrypting the Natural Security password with Electronic Code Book (ECB) encryption to not comply with IRS standards. Enhance Natural Security so that the NSC password is encrypted to meet FIPS 140-3 compliance.
Gary Athaide about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review

Filler notation for WRITE WORK FILE

Enhancement Request: Please consider allowing filler notation (nX) with the WRITE WORK FILE statement. Example: WRITE WORK FILE 1 VARIABLE #VAR1 2X #VAR2 5X #VAR3 Reason: Filler notation is intuitive and gives a consistent feel to the language syn...
Guest over 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 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 over 4 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 over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Utilities 0 Future consideration

Support file number intervals in all utility functions

Some utility functions does not support file number intervals. ADAOPR CLEAR_FILE_STATS and ADADBM DELETE does. But ADAOPR LOCK and ADAOPR UNLOCK does not! This would make the use of functions more consistent. Also you would be able to assign a fil...
Mogens Lundqvist over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Utilities 1 Under Review