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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

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

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

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 Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Under Review

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

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under Review

ADASEL: Increase DDEXPA DD cards to maximum of 99, similar to ASSO & DATA DD Cards

We are managing VLDB ADABAS database serving the population of the country. Our national Database contains more than 150 ADABAS Files. Many a times, we are tasked with producing transactional investigations using multiple large Protection Logs ag...
Zaffer Khan over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 2 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 about 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 about 3 years ago in CONNX 0 Under Review

Deactivate subscription on ADAF7F to avoid inconsistent target.

The message ADAF7F is issued when a response code comes from the decompression of a record. Such errors can be sporadic in the case of rsp 42/2 caused by a too small LFP. As a result - sporadically - changed records are not replicated. This causin...
Bjarne Sørensen over 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Under Review
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