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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

Show DS block usage for a file reading only DSST.

If you want to know how much space is available in the used DS blocks of a big file - ADADRU will read all used DS blocks and use much resources. Instead, make a function in ADADRU or SYSAOS to get this information from just the DSST elements of t...
Bjarne Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

Feature to shut down REPTOR waiting first for all source nuclei to disconnect

Issuing ADAEND to a REPTOR should not be done before the connected source nuclei have ended. When shutting down a production environment (typically before an IPL) - you can automate that the source nuclei (EG DB1,DB2,DB3) tasks have ended before A...
Bjarne Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Under Review

ADASEL: Increase DDEXPA DD cards to maximum of 99, similar to ASSO & DATA DD Cards

We are managing VLDB ADABAS database serving the population of the country. Our national Database contains more than 150 ADABAS Files. Many a times, we are tasked with producing transactional investigations using multiple large Protection Logs ag...
Zaffer Khan over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 Under Review

Deactivate subscription on ADAF7F to avoid inconsistent target.

The message ADAF7F is issued when a response code comes from the decompression of a record. Such errors can be sporadic in the case of rsp 42/2 caused by a too small LFP. As a result - sporadically - changed records are not replicated. This causin...
Bjarne Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Under Review

AEZ Support for Quantum Safe Algorithms

In 2022 the NIST published the first 4 quantum resistant Algorithms. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms and in Aug 2023 announced 3 of these are expected to be ready i...
Neil Quigley about 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

Better Options For MS SQL Server Loader (bcp)

This is in the context of replicating data from a mainframe Adabas to a MS SQL Server under Windows. For a huge amount of data in source files Initial State processing can get done with ADARIS and a loader, bcp (Bulk Copy Program) as a MS SQL Serv...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Target Adapter (ART) 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

Supply API's for SYSAOS menus

Supply API's for all SYSAOS reporting functions including queue display's and parameters in order to write own database monitoring programs. Currently all database monitoring is done using either a report or the online functions in SYSAOS with use...
Andre Rudolph over 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Online System (AOS) / Monitoring 3 Not in Plan
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