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(Super Natural) Enhance to handle file updates in transactions

In Super Natural we have a large number of files defined. We are constantly updating those file definitions. We add/update/delete fields with new releases of our application. Currently there is no elegant way to get the updates into Super Natural....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Allow Edit Masks to be named constants

Natural provide the "Edit Mask"-feature which is most useful. I would like to see an improvement in using this feature. Currently, the Edit Mask must explicitly specified when used. If you have big applications the used Edit Mask are dispersed in ...
Christian Held over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Weitere Werte für Parameter DBUPD

Der Paramter DBUPD zusätzlich noch weitere Werte zur Steuerung des Verhaltens bei Datenbankupdates erhalten: Vorschlag: - DBUPD=ON -> so wie jetzt - ganz normale DB-UPDATES- DBUPD=OFF -> so wie jetzt - generiert Warnung (ev. Synonym DBUPD=WA...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Provide SIZEOF( dataitem ) to determine the storage size of dataitem

Natural defines a set of "Application Related System Variables". To give an example: *LBOUND() and *UBOUND()can be used to determine the lower and upper bound of an array. If you have to answer the question "how much bytes are used for a dataitem?...
Christian Held over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Security issue starting an NDV server

If NSC is active, any person can start and NDV server, even with an invalid INITIAL_USERID, so it is not clear why there is no protection to start an NDV server when NSC is active.
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Not in Plan

Allow Edit-Mask Left & Right on MOVE EDITED

MOVE EDITED only permits 1 Edit-Mask on the left or right hand side. It would save many lines-of-code if 2 Edit-Masks were allowed, left AND right.Effectively, MOVE EDITED is an Alpha Move:one side is alpha & the Edit-Mask reduces the other si...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Natural RPC Server, Bufferpool kurz offline

In diesem Fall geht es um das Verhalten des RPC Servers, wenn der Bufferpool kurzzeitig nicht verfügbar ist (z.B. durch einen Neustart zu Wartungszwecken).Momentan würde der RPC Server 16 Versuche hintereinander (ohne Wartezeit) machen und sich da...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 0 Not in Plan