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Option to Obtain Dynamic Execution Info

Analysts researching which Natural objects using Dynamic SQL are causing issues such as DB/2 Locking Based on the feedback from SAG (*pasted below), Please create a utility for NDBIOMO (Dynamic Natural SQL) with the option to capture and enable No...
Rick Poirier over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural for Db2 (NDB/NDB) 1 Released

Generate SYSOBJH WORKPLAN LISTs from Predict

Rather than hand-coding the WORKPLAN lists, would be better to have something like a Generation option in Predict to create the SYSOBJH WORKPLAN (in spite of the name clash with Predict's "workplan" feature). Enabling us to create and manipulate t...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Predict (PRD) 0 Released

Natural should be able to detect the problem with having the MF value and the static generation value different

Natural should be able to detect the problem with having the MF value and the static generation value different and either 1. automatically adjust in some fashion 2. at least, give a message that identifies the problem, so we don't have to spend 2...
Jay Baucher over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural for Db2 (NDB/NDB) 4 Released

Allow RPC from Natural without forcing ICU to be installed

Directly related to SI-458003 use RPC protocol 2050 without using ICU instead using Natural default code page. This was reviewed and suggested by Software AG RnD. Thanks, Chad Scott - Feb.24, 2022
Chad Scott almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Released

Userexit to write SMF records without switching into TCB mode

We have an ongoing Assembler replacement project and want to get rid of a routine which writes SMF records for statistics data. This routine is called around 60 million times a day from RPC transactions. Every call causes a switch from zIIP to the GP
Alexander Schuster over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

READ DESCENDING BY ISN

Background: Occasionally, we want to access the LAST record in a file, but there is no simple way to do this. For Adabas files with the option ISN-Reusage=No,a feature such as READ (1) DESCENDING BY ISN would achieve this requirement simply & ...

Dynamic RPC-Trace

We need the possibility to switch the NATURAL-RPC-Trace on / off dynamically. We have a lot of NATURAL-Batch-RPC-Servers with up to 40 Tasks. It is not possible to stop the Server in operation, but sometimes we need a trace of a running server, if...
Reiner Koester over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

NSC: Maintenance Log Records: output options

The output possibilities of Maintenance log records should be enhanced in the following way: 1. Only the modified fields should be listed, not the complete NSC profile of the object type (eg. Library, User). 2. In case of a modification, the 'old ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Released

*TIMESTMP (B8) "overflow"

At 17.09.2042 the B8-Variable *TIMESTMP will be "full". In 23 year; compare it with the difference to year 2000. This variable is important. Is there a plan to solve the problem? In coordination with IBM (Store clock)? *TIMESTMP is use for time me...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Dynamic parameter for NDV CICS selection.

Customer has 12 CICS's running in the development and test environments and developers need access to them all - meaning 12 NDV server tasks are needed. Consider making the configuration RFE_CICS_TA_HOST and RFE_CICS_TA_PORT dynamic parameters for...
Bjarne Soerensen almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Released