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Extend Natural Objectnames to 32 Byte

Natural Newbees are shocked, when they find out, that Objectnames in Natural are maximum 8 Bytes long. It is like DOS in the 90ties. So Natural should allow Objectnames to 32 Byte (Natural for Open Systems), An alternative would be, to extend the ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 6 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

NaturalOne (and NDV Server) should consider the relations of Natural Classes

Natural Classes can be edited and be built in Natural One. But the mechanism to catalog an object when a referenced object is changed does not exist for classes. That means that allways when a referended PDA or ODA of a Class is changed we must ch...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 6 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

Mapping Natural Server using the environment name.

We work with about 10 different environments, which include Test environments, QA environments, and Production environments, all on the same MF. Mapping Natural Server to an environment is done by referring to the Host Name & Port Number for t...
Menashe Cohen about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Future consideration

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to?

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to? There's no USR-Subprogram giving the answer to that question. Sample:Imagine the following: Let's say my UDB is set to 001. DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 VIEW01 VIEW MYFILE1-DB12 /* DBID...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Future consideration

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe, we have found that our customers find it difficult to implement the licence keys on mainframe. Whenever there is changes on the hardware configuration they experience problems. AD...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

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 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

NaturalONE - Map Layout orientation option on Editor

It will be useful for developers to have a button/option of switching the Map-Layout orientation on the editor itself, rather than going and choosing it each time from the preferences menu.
Arun Thomas Abraham almost 2 years ago in NaturalONE 1 Future consideration

Natural One Version 8.3.6 - Mainframe Navigation

Please find below our comments as regards Natural One Version 8.3.6 bundle Mainframe Navigation facility. · Our suggestion for improvement 1. When editing z/OS JCL no JCL syntax highlighting facility is available. 2. Provide at least one h...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

NatOne: 2 Way Build: first without, second with parameter check solves all interface problems

When In Natural One an Interface for example a pda of a subprogram is changed, it can happen, that the build process has to be repeated n times, when the pda is used in a chain of n subprograms; if there is a recursive subprogram call using the pd...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) / Usability 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration