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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 over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

AEZ Support for Quantum Safe Algorithms

In 2022 the NIST published the first 4 quantum resistant Algorithms. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms and in Aug 2023 announced 3 of these are expected to be ready i...
Neil Quigley about 1 year ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 Under Review

Cobol Occurs depending on records are expanded out instead of using rotated arrays/child tables

When importing and populating tables that are the result of an occurs depending on instead of requiring child tables to be create, expand the ODO out to its maximum size. This will allow the record to be repatriated to its original source without ...
William Anderson over 2 years ago in CONNX 0 Under Review

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 about 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

Include runtime identification in Profiler report tab

When running multiple Profiler sessions to test variations in a program (to see performance impact of changes), each profiler report opens with the same tab name "<program>[<library>]". Would be helpful to have at least a date/time (si...
Douglas Kelly over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Under Review

Enable "Coverage As" to work the same as "Profile As" and "Debug As"

Currently, to use the Coverage profiling feature, you have to add in additional runtime parameters ("coverage=(active=on,reslib=xxx,resname=yyy)"), but adding these types of options are not required for Profiler or Debugger run options.
Douglas Kelly over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 0 Under Review

Add a "labelled data field" Control

presently, when adding a Data Field to a map, it is unlabelled, requiring an extra step to add a Text Constant to the map. A "Labelled Data Field" would bring along the default heading as a text box (maybe with some configurable settings for where...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Encrypt NSC Password to FIPS 140-3 Compliance

The current standard of encrypting the Natural Security password with Electronic Code Book (ECB) encryption to not comply with IRS standards. Enhance Natural Security so that the NSC password is encrypted to meet FIPS 140-3 compliance.
Gary Athaide over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Under Review