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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 almost 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Examine command new options

Add new features for Examine command: Let assume I have a string dynamic array: #str (a/1:6) dynamic const <"10","1","31","20","2","21"> I want to search for the string "1" in that array, so I want to get index 2 that it is exactly the same ...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 4 Not in Plan

Static variables such as *line-counter(rep)

Variables such as *page-num(rep) or *line-counter(rep) should be static, and I will be able toin any modules in process how many pages are already in rep-id and how many line *line-counter(rep) in current page Maybe, there are more variables that ...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review

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 over 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 over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 almost 2 years 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 almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

Add detailed logfiles for NDV

We need to have a logfile to show why the NDV (natdvsrv) process would remain active but the actual port (2700 for example) becomes unavailable; You have to restart the NDV process to active the port again but it would be nice to have a logfile or...
Hentie Pauley almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural Development Server (NDV) 0 Planned

Naturalbufferpool

Es sollte möglich sein, das, wenn die max. definierte Useranzahl im Naturalbufferpool erreicht ist,man im Naturalbufferpoolmonitor weiterhin Kommands wie status, who, kill abzusetzen, um in solch einem Fall einzelne User aus dem Naturalbufferpool ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

NAT: Debugger - prohibit modification of field content / program flow

Debugging should also be possible in production environments. But then it must be prohibited- to modify the content of variables- to influence the regular program flow Natural Debugger should provide such a possibility.
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan