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Option to Obtain Dynamic Execution Info

Analysts researching which Natural objects using Dynamic SQL are causing issues such as DB/2 Locking Based on the feedback from SAG (*pasted below), Please create a utility for NDBIOMO (Dynamic Natural SQL) with the option to capture and enable No...
Rick Poirier over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural for Db2 (NDB/NDB) 1 Under development

Enable use of environment variables in “session parameters” in Map of a Natural Server Environment

It would great to be able to use environment variables (e.g. $sys_udv, $sys_tst – further see below) when mapping an environment. Simply include these variables as dynamic parameters when forking the new process from the NDV server. Background To ...
Mogens Lundqvist over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan

Record actions in production environment.

Some sites have a pre-requisite that all work done in the production environment is recorded for auditing purposes. For example, the desktop (and terminal emulator) and keystrokes are recorded on video. This also covered emergency Natural develope...
Bjarne Soerensen over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / Security 0 Future consideration

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 10 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

Introduce parallelism when using MultiDB feature

For now, when we use multiDB feature, the DBs are queried sequentially wich lead to poor performance when the number of DB arises. It should be usefull to make the queries in parallel on each DB of the pool. By example, an algorithm like "K-WAY me...
Didier Rigoli 11 months ago in CONNX 1 Not in Plan

Static variables such as *line-counter(rep)

Variables such as *page-num(rep) or *line-counter(rep) should be static, and I will be able toin any modules in process how many pages are already in rep-id and how many line *line-counter(rep) in current page Maybe, there are more variables that ...
Hezi Shirazi 11 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Expand X-Arrays by variable

We would like to be able to expand tables (X-ARRAYS) via a statement: EXPAND ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#VAR-INT>
Detlef Ziermann 11 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Sort of ARRAYs

We would like to be able to sort tables according to a defined field of the table via a simple statement: SORT ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#SORT-FIELD>
Detlef Ziermann 11 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Allow time range for REVIEW functions

Viewing History allows both date & time ranges, but compressing or deleting history has no time range option. I planned an hourly job using REVIEWB HISTORY to send the most recent hour of a large report to GDG, then DELHIST to delete that hour...
Daniel Geary almost 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 New