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The comment symbol - "*" or "/*"

Hello, When using the "add/remove comment" of the NaturalONE editor, it always uses a "*" on the first character of the line. However, a "/*" can also be used to create a comment line. I would like to be able to choose if I want a "*" or a "/*". ...
Hezi Shirazi about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

dangerous reference of an ambiguous view variable

When you have the define data:1 v1 view of xyz2 field11 v2 view of xyz2 field1and you have several gets of v1 and v2 you can use field1 in Program.The Compiler refers to the last get that is made, not in Program flow, but in Sourcecode lines.this ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

Remove the library listing upper limit (500), or set the value to a much higher one, such as 10000.

One of our Natural customers has over 800 libraries under FUSER. I recently learned that the maximum number displayed in the Listing is 500. Because of that, the customer has to explicitly specify the library name rather than typing the first ch...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Development mode not changeable for Projects

Today you can download a project from your source code control and then change the setting of "Development mode" between Shared and Privat as you want to. We would like to have the mode fixed, so once a project is created the "development mode" ca...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Verhalten beim Copy&Paste von langem Freitext (mehrzeilig)

Wir haben unsere Anwendungen vom Mainframe auf ein Solaris-System überführt. Dabei ist eine Funktionalität verloren gegangen, die unseren Kunden extrem wichtig ist. Es geht um das Kopieren von mehrzeiligen langem Freitext und anschließendem Einfüg...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

Applications using NNI should not be required to live in $NATDIR/bin

Applications using NNI should, as was the case until Natural 6.3, be able to run from anywhere rather than be required to run out of the Natural bin directory (as documented). It is just not feasible to require sites to have entire applications in...
Wolfgang Winter about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

NAT: REQUEST DOCUMENT and NTLM Authentication

Request Document should support NTLM Authentication. Reason:NTLM is a more secure logon process because it uses an encrypted challenge/response protocol to authenticate a user without sending the user's password over the wire. For the authenticati...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

No of trace files exhausted

We experience that we run out of Natural trace files (e.g. KOBPRnnn.TRC). When all the numbers in range 1 to 999 have been used (total 999), trace files for new sessions are not created. Daily we run clean-up and delete files older than 2 days bu...
Mogens Lundqvist about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

(Super Natural) Enhance to handle file updates in transactions

In Super Natural we have a large number of files defined. We are constantly updating those file definitions. We add/update/delete fields with new releases of our application. Currently there is no elegant way to get the updates into Super Natural....
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Allow Edit Masks to be named constants

Natural provide the "Edit Mask"-feature which is most useful. I would like to see an improvement in using this feature. Currently, the Edit Mask must explicitly specified when used. If you have big applications the used Edit Mask are dispersed in ...
Christian Held about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan