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NAT: COMPRESS LOGICAL variable

It is possible to MOVE a field of format L to a field of format A. But it is not possible to COMPRESS a field of format L into a field of format A. This should be made possible, following the rules of a MOVE: TRUE as x'E7' FALSE as x'40' Example...
Guest over 3 years 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 & ...

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

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

NDV - consol message in case of security problems with external security

When activating external security in the NDV you get the answers from RACF without RACF consol messages like ICH408I.(RACF is called out of the Unix system services by the call pthread_security_np) .The NDV writes a corresponding message in STGTRA...
Christina Möllenberg over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Released

WRITE WORK FILE / allow <work-file-number> to be a named constant

The syntax of the WRITE WORK FILE statement forces the to be an explicit numeric literal (ex: 1, 7, 22). It should be possible to use a named constant instead. Benefits: - code beomes more readable. - Searching inside a program becomes morehandy (...
Christian Held 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

Load library of natural-objects

Working with several steplibs is the normal case. Sometimes we want to know, from which natural-library a program was loaded. *LIBRARY-ID doesn't help as it shows the library where the program is executed. In SYSBPM we find the information onlyfor...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

SYSMAIN & SYSOBJH: Use SYSSEC Library FDIC settings for Source and Target libraries

With the implementation of FDIC settings at library level in SYSSEC, it would be useful to default the SOURCE and TARGET FDICS to those of the Natural library in SYSSEC. This would enable the appropriate XREF data to be copied with the programming...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Released