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more features in profiler & code-coverage

Hi, Please read my request: 1) Short description: Edit of a program listed in the Hot Spots view of a Profiler resource fails with error. Description: When editing a program listed in the Hot Spots view of a Profiler resource an error occurs. Inte...
Hezi Shirazi over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Planned

Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Display of used USIZE of a Natural runtime situation

In a number of stacked Natural Subprograms with some data areas and a number of dynamic variables it can be difficult to calculate the amount of used USIZE. But for the software development strategy it is important to know the amount of size that ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

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 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Option to specify more than 3 parameters in DELTA SAVE Facility

We would like to request an enhancement for ADABAS DELTA SAVE Facility so as to cater to 3 or parameter options during restore. Following was an incident raised earlier on the same subject. ADASAV RESTORE DELTA (Delta/Drives/Fmove): "Quiet often...
Zaffer Khan over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Delta Save Facility (ADE) 1 Planned

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT .It can be similar to the existing SCAN tool. The replace function is not required and may be a bit dangerous. This way we can search all source code for a specific string, be...
Dana Sherbondy 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

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 9 months 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 9 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Allow REV521 REVIEWB input continuation (SI-484892)

Pls allow REV521 REVIEWB input continuation (per SI-484892). In Batch Natural using REVIEWB to run Review reports in batch, the combination of report name and date/time range criteria (i.e. From & To dates, with Times) can easily exceed 71 cha...
Daniel Geary about 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New

Avoid database corruption by second nucleus start.

If the database resides in remote or mirrored disks - it could happen that a second nucleus comes up on the same database container files and does an autorestart which will corrupt the database. Introduce fail-safe measures to detect and avoid thi...
Bjarne Soerensen about 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under development