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Prevent Edit object in Natural Server View

We are now testing NaturalONE and will soon implement it for all our developers. We saw that it is possible to edit Natural modules using the Natural Server area of NaturalONE. When this is done the module is locked. In case that the developer did...
Menashe Cohen over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

ONE: Icons for the NATstyle functions in the Eclipse toolbar

NATstyle messages do not disappear automatically. In most cases the user has to execute the function "Clear NATstyle Violations" to make them disappear. Therefore it would be very comfortable if there was an icon in the Eclipse toolbar to execute ...
Guest over 4 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan

ONE: XREF data and private-mode libraries

If XREF ON is set for a library which is used in private mode,then Xref data are also generated for the modules in the private-mode library that belongs to this library. This is superfluous. Reasons: - Logon to a private-mode library is not possib...
Guest over 4 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Shortcut to "Stow" (Upload to private mode library)

When you are in an object editor (E.g. program editor) there are no shortcut to "stow" the changed object. You can save the object by using CTRL+S, but you need to find the object in the navigator view and select it and do ALT+T to get it "stowed"...
Guest over 4 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan

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

adavfy on LUW

add Timestamp to output: %ADAVFY-I-INDSTR, Index verification %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, NI: used: 210, free: 1773, reusage: 17, lost: 0 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, UI: used: 1, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost: 1 %ADAVFY-I-INDCNT, MI: used: 9, free: 87, reusage: 2, lost:...
Guest over 4 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

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