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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 about 2 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 New

allow private library in one project to be referenced in another project in same workspace

This would allow projects (each of which may be linked to a different git repo) within a workspace to be able to test related changes affecting different libraries (possibly in different repos) before releasing to shared area. Note this is not loo...
Douglas Kelly 2 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 New

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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 New

Cross Platform Convert (PLOG Solaris to Linux)

If possible, we would like to generate a Solaris (Spark) to Linux PLOG converter, so that these files can be read from Linux, just as we can process the files generated with the Backup utility.
Lourdes Camarero de Diego 2 months ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 0 Under Review

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT

Create a user exit in SYSEXT to perform a SCAN across all FUSER or FNAT .It can be similar to the existing SCAN tool. The replace function is not required and may be a bit dangerous. This way we can search all source code for a specific string, be...
Dana Sherbondy 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Utilities 2 Not in Plan

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 3 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Under Review

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 3 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 3 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 New

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