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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

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

Collapse on IF, ELSE and VALUE (DECIDE)

When you collapse an IF-Statement, the ELSE is collapsed, too. This at first glance, looks like the code of the ELSE is the code of the IF itself. When you collapse a DECIDE Statement, the whole Decide-Structure is collapsed, which is fine. If you...
Michael Greven 10 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Displaying aktive symbols in active networks OGC

Displaying avtive symbols in active networks would be very helpful for monitoring and planing productive work.
Walter Schulte over 2 years ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operations GUI client (OGC) 0 Not in Plan

Add ISN to RBAC log so activity can be correlated to PLOG records in manual audits

The current process of trying to determine when a user changed a record involves trying to find timestamps close to each other across RBAC (NUCADT.LOG) and PLOG reports and files. Having the ISN associated in RBAC would greatly simplify the search...
Sam Longoria over 2 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / RBAC / Security 0 Planned

ADAORD reorder with FILE= and no other parms should be an error

ADAORD REORASSO FILE=123 is a valid request that will simply reorder the entire associator - the "FILE=" parameter, while appearing to apply only to one file, actually does nothing, unlike the similar ADAORD REORFASSO FILE=123 which reorganizes ju...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 3 Not in Plan

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 Soerensen 10 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

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 Soerensen 10 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

opentelemetry

It will be best when Adabas will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 11 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 New