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New System Variable B9-TIMESTMP

For a simpler conversion from the System Variable *TIMESTMP, which expires in 2042, to a timestamp extended by a leading epoch byte, a new System Variable in the format B9 would be helpful. This should be structured analogously to the already plan...
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud 1 Future consideration

Secure storage/retrieval of passwords such as EXX passwords

Currently, calling secured EntireX services requires calling RPC-CNTX or USR2071N/USR2702N/USR2074N/etc to pass in a user id and password. There's no provision for providing anything other than a clear text password, so it ends up in clear text in...
Douglas Kelly about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

Recording testdata for NaturalONE test tool

NaturalONE contains a test tool that allow you to re-run test cases from CSV files. We have a lot of complex subprograms, with many parameters, therefore it would be a big help to "record" calls to subprograms during execution. If you turn on reco...
Guest about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

ONE: E_0285 MOVE ALL with SUBSTRING option

The SUBSTRING function in MOVE ALL has not yet been implemented in Natural LUW and ONE.The statement MOVE ALL 'string' TO SUBSTR(field,n,m) results in the following errors: NAT0285 Field reference error; reference invalid or missing. (Natural)E_02...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Message if REPLICATION gets turned on/off for a file

When working with the Event Replicator for Adabas you can turn replication on and of for certain Adabas files. A change of the status of the file is logged in the checkpoint file of the database. However, there's no message in DDPRINT, Job-Output ...
Hermann Pfeiffer about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) / Security 0 Future consideration

IP-Address in ADABAS REVIEW

For any 24/7 service-oriented organization that relies heavily on REVIEW Logs for monitoring/statistical purposes, a search is made to identify transactions generating errors/loops. But we are unable to find the IP-address of the source. Although,...
Arun Thomas Abraham about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Review (REV) 0 Future consideration

Function "ODD()"

If you want to know if a number is odd or even, you can do the following now: IF #I <> #I / 2 * 2 THEN ... END-IF This takes however quite a bit of CPU, but it can already by simplified by following declarations: 1 #I (I4)1 REDEFINE #I 2 FIL...
Philippe Van Coppenolle about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

NOP: Export Feature Schedule Definition

Comment of the requester Herr Schneider on 2023-07-25: From my point of view, there is no need for the change we want for the other customers, but there is also no contradiction. Therefore, from my point of view, the change could be analysed furth...
Georg Schmitt about 1 year ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operation (NOP) / Entire Operations GUI client (OGC) 0 Future consideration

Profiler y Code Coverage

1. Development Process (NaturalONE) Code Coverage: According to the documentation (after several redirections in this documentation), it is not possible to use the Code Coverage from NaturalONE in Online mode in Mainframe environments. To use it f...
Fernando Díaz about 2 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 1 Future consideration

Mainframe Navigation needs additional features

Mainframe Navigation view (which requires Entire System Server on the mainframe) needs more features to be really useful. Some examples: Jobs list should include a date/time when job ended (inactive) or was submitted (Active Jobs tree) view of a J...
Douglas Kelly about 1 year ago in NaturalONE / Usability 0 Future consideration
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