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Expand X-Arrays by variable

We would like to be able to expand tables (X-ARRAYS) via a statement: EXPAND ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#VAR-INT>
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Sort of ARRAYs

We would like to be able to sort tables according to a defined field of the table via a simple statement: SORT ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#SORT-FIELD>
Detlef Ziermann about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

API needed to convert the ONE line numbers of error messages

API needed to convert the ONE line numbers in error messages into the according source line numers on server. Spod works with logical line numbers (incremental steps 10/5/2/1 ). NaturalONE works with real line numbers (incremental step 1). If an e...
Andreas Dege over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

Support process id as variable for print and workfiles

Support process id as variable for print and workfiles Example - this invoke of Natural: natrt.exe BATCHMODE CMPRINT="C:\CMPRINT *PID.LOG" CMPRT01="C:\CMPRT01 *PID.LOG" CMWRK01="C:\CMWRK01 *PID.TXT" and if process id is '4711' CMPRINT becomes "C:\...
Mogens Lundqvist over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Command "L EXT" in NATURAL/AIX/LNX.

In NATURAL/AIX/LNX: Implementcommand "l ext" to show the extended name of the subroutine. This command exists in NATURAL Mainframe.- NATURAL/ZOS Example: NEXT l ext * LIB=RCELSO ---------------------------------------------------------------------...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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

on-error-cmd

Hi as we have on error cmd in a module level, it will be very helpful to have same upon a cmd level (such as in java/c$/python & etc: try/catch)
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan
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