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Provide SIZEOF( dataitem ) to determine the storage size of dataitem

Natural defines a set of "Application Related System Variables". To give an example: *LBOUND() and *UBOUND()can be used to determine the lower and upper bound of an array. If you have to answer the question "how much bytes are used for a dataitem?...

Christian Held almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

2 VOTE

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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

5 VOTE

Introduce User-Defined Data Types

There is a SAG strategie (or statement)called "ADABAS & NATURAL 2050+" Based on this I would like to have "User-Defined Data Types". I assume that the audience is familiar with this concept. When NATURAL was introduced it was called a 4-GL lan...

Christian Held almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

2 VOTE

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 almost 3 years ago in NaturalONE 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

(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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

2 VOTE

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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

1 VOTE

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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

0 VOTE

Security issue starting an NDV server

If NSC is active, any person can start and NDV server, even with an invalid INITIAL_USERID, so it is not clear why there is no protection to start an NDV server when NSC is active.

Guest almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Not in Plan

0 VOTE

Allow Edit-Mask Left & Right on MOVE EDITED

MOVE EDITED only permits 1 Edit-Mask on the left or right hand side. It would save many lines-of-code if 2 Edit-Masks were allowed, left AND right.Effectively, MOVE EDITED is an Alpha Move:one side is alpha & the Edit-Mask reduces the other si...

Guest almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan

0 VOTE

Natural RPC Server, Bufferpool kurz offline

In diesem Fall geht es um das Verhalten des RPC Servers, wenn der Bufferpool kurzzeitig nicht verfügbar ist (z.B. durch einen Neustart zu Wartungszwecken).Momentan würde der RPC Server 16 Versuche hintereinander (ohne Wartezeit) machen und sich da...

Guest almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 0 Not in Plan

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