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ADADABS ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE to be allowed even if file currently used

Currently, it is not possible to proceed with an ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE of space on a file with ADADBS if a file is used ( even if is it only being read).We have got very big files (high number of records and high number of cylinders in allocation) i...
Guest about 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 0 Under Review

SPATs messages - MVS console log

Currently we receive errors of Natural programs on SPATs (triggers) in SYSOUT TSPRTnn but what we want is to receive also as these error messages on the MVS SYSLOG. It is impossible to ascend alerts automatically in real time by an alert tool (suc...
Guest about 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review

Timestamp on each fnr & on each key fnr

Hi, I would like to get from an application (for now it is Natural) 2 different variables:1 . timestamp of fnr, when the last time it was modified (insert/update/delete) 2. timestamp of each key (Desc/Super & etc) for each fnr, when it was mod...
Hezi Shirazi over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under Review

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

SYNP details in Plog

Plog adarec regenerate tells "Re-execute" and only gives, e.g., ADAINV INVERT=145,FIELD=XX without any details of parts this field XX should be built. This may make Plog useless unless some trail of invert job is kept. It would be nice to have ful...
Arnis Avots over 1 year ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 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 about 3 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 about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 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 almost 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Encryption (AEZ) 2 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 almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review