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Prevent Edit object in Natural Server View

We are now testing NaturalONE and will soon implement it for all our developers. We saw that it is possible to edit Natural modules using the Natural Server area of NaturalONE. When this is done the module is locked. In case that the developer did...
Menashe Cohen over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

Snippet Library for Ajax Layout Samples

Sometimes you want to add some specific user interface snippets like an input group with error marking, help icons as popovers and small information text for your end-users to your layout page. Or you want to simply apply a specific icon - like a ...
Christine Zimmermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 0 Under Review

handle db connection with rpc server

Hi, In our environment we are using REST API to access Natural RPC servers. I have noticed that the RPC process isn’t closing its db (adabas) connections. Using ADAOPR DI=UQ_FILE I saw that NATRPC is still holding files that a request that had ran...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under development

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 over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Layout Painter to not remove comments in XML

Layout Painter editor removes comments in the XML. This would help with adding comments in the xml for documentation purposes.
Jeffrey Empaces about 3 years ago in Natural for Ajax / Natural for Ajax (NJX) 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 over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

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 over 3 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 over 3 years ago in CONNX 0 Under Review

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 Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review