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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 about 1 year 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 about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Secure storage/retrieval of passwords such as EXX passwords

Currently, calling secured EntireX services requires calling RPC-CNTX or USR2071N/USR2702N/USR2074N/etc to pass in a user id and password. There's no provision for providing anything other than a clear text password, so it ends up in clear text in...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Cobol Occurs depending on records are expanded out instead of using rotated arrays/child tables

When importing and populating tables that are the result of an occurs depending on instead of requiring child tables to be create, expand the ODO out to its maximum size. This will allow the record to be repatriated to its original source without ...
William Anderson about 2 years ago in CONNX 0 Under Review

Recording testdata for NaturalONE test tool

NaturalONE contains a test tool that allow you to re-run test cases from CSV files. We have a lot of complex subprograms, with many parameters, therefore it would be a big help to "record" calls to subprograms during execution. If you turn on reco...
Guest over 3 years 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 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan

ONE: Integrate NATstyle into the parsing process of the Natural Source Editor

NATstyle should be integrated into the parsing process of the Natural Source Editor. Advantages:- Errors could be marked while editing.- Error markers would be always on correct line. "This would have the benefit that the user could see NATstyle p...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under development

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 3 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 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Not in Plan
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