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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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 2 Not in Plan

IP-Address in ADABAS REVIEW

For any 24/7 service-oriented organization that relies heavily on REVIEW Logs for monitoring/statistical purposes, a search is made to identify transactions generating errors/loops. But we are unable to find the IP-address of the source. Although,...
Arun Thomas Abraham over 5 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 Future consideration

Make calculation of expanded file chain while nucleus is active

KB article 1765090 is related to this feature request.Sequence of events: ADASAV back up database; ADADBS delete all application files; ADAORD REORDB; ADASAV restore FMOVE all application files (expanded files in the database) back into database. ...
Guest over 5 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Under Review

Adadbs Deallocate by cylinders

The DEALLOCATE function of the ADADBS utility is accepting values for the size parameters (ACSIZE | AC2SIZE | DSSIZE | NISIZE | UISIZE) only in units of RABN blocks.Most other utilities and functions allow the provision of size values in blocks or...
Guest over 5 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 0 Planned

SPATs messages - MVS console log

Currently we receive errors of Natural programs on SPATs (triggers) in SYSOUT TSPRTnn but what we want is to receive also as these error messages on the MVS SYSLOG. It is impossible to ascend alerts automatically in real time by an alert tool (suc...
Guest over 5 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

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 5 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 5 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Utilities 0 Future consideration

TRANSACTIONS SUSPEND to show related P-log block number.

When making use of TRANSACTIONS SUSPEND and RESUME for taking a snapshot copy of the database container datasets - it would be useful if the ADADBS would write the related protection log block number of the SYNC. This block number will be needed a...
Bjarne S�rensen over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability 0 Future consideration