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Extract IDL should create the same IDL for Natural source & object (LUW & MF)

The extracted IDL from Natural source and/or object differs depending on the plattform (LUW or MF). The extracted IDL should be the same on all platforms independent regardless of the extraction source. If my Natural source contains this PDA: DEFI...
Paul Grünböck over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Define INDEPENDENT-variablen in LDAs

Hi, I would like to define INDEPENDENT-variablen in a separte file, like LDAs vor lokal variable. So I could define the indeoendent-variables once and could integrate them with DEFINE DATA INDEPENDENT USING XYZ END-DEFINE Best regards, Markus Weßj...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Natural Editor - Change Tile Vertically behaviour

I would expect choosing 'Tile Vertically' that all open program, LDA etc. windows are tiled while maximizing vertical space over horizontal space. However, I can stretch my Natural editor over several screens (5760 x 1080) and the tiling does not ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

Natural Auditing

There are new security regulation that we will be able to achieve if Natural will provide the following: Running a Natural session, I need to know, which changes were done to the: Fnat, Fuser, Fddm. (using command like save, cat, scartch, sto...
Hezi Shirazi over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

FIND NUMBER RECORDS ...

Background: Currently, Natural has no "generic" way to find the number of records loaded in an Adabas file. Natural must always use the name of a file-specific descriptor which is "known to be populated for every record". e.g. FIND NUMBER EMPLOYES...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Format Length Conflict

Bei Unstimmigkeiten zwischen LDA und Adapter bekomme ich eine Meldung "Format/length conflict". (Dort wird mir ganz einfach die Nummer des Adapter-Parameters angegeben.) Geben Sie doch bitte den Namen des Adapter-Parameters aus. Die Software weiss...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE 0 Future consideration

Filler notation for WRITE WORK FILE

Enhancement Request: Please consider allowing filler notation (nX) with the WRITE WORK FILE statement. Example: WRITE WORK FILE 1 VARIABLE #VAR1 2X #VAR2 5X #VAR3 Reason: Filler notation is intuitive and gives a consistent feel to the language syn...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Supply API's for SYSAOS menus

Supply API's for all SYSAOS reporting functions including queue display's and parameters in order to write own database monitoring programs. Currently all database monitoring is done using either a report or the online functions in SYSAOS with use...
Andre Rudolph over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Online System (AOS) / Monitoring 3 Not in Plan

Decorators to show if 'source' is running or stopped

The Event Replicator Target Adapter Administration Tool shows a navigation tree comprising all the 'engines', 'sources' and 'targets' defined under the Status branch. To figure out, if those components a re running or stopped, one has to double-cl...
Hermann Pfeiffer over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Target Adapter (ART) / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add Direct Commands to SYSRPTR application

Similar to applications like SYSAOS and SYSDIC, SYSRPTR would benefit greatly if it supported direct commands. For example, GEN GFB NAME=G054151 FILE-ID=EMPLOYEES-FILE ADA-VER=I9 OCCUR=YES FULL-FORMAT=YES [OVERWRITE]. This would allow the creation...
Wayne Campos over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 Future consideration