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Online reorder of data should not write gigabytes on p-log

Stop or make optional the writing of records moved by online reorder to the protection log. do this to reduce the critical recovery time (restore and regenerate). When you do an online reorder of an Adabas file in a given descriptor sequence the r...
Bjarne Soerensen over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

Allow spacer element (“1X”) in COMPRESS statement

With a COMPRESS statement the contents of one or more operands (Vari or Const) can be concatenated into a single target field. Beside some other options, two different clauses are available to determine the value separation behavior. (1) With LEAV...
Thomas Frischmann 4 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

Extend Natural Objectnames to 32 Byte

Natural Newbees are shocked, when they find out, that Objectnames in Natural are maximum 8 Bytes long. It is like DOS in the 90ties. So Natural should allow Objectnames to 32 Byte (Natural for Open Systems), An alternative would be, to extend the ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 4 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

NaturalOne (and NDV Server) should consider the relations of Natural Classes

Natural Classes can be edited and be built in Natural One. But the mechanism to catalog an object when a referenced object is changed does not exist for classes. That means that allways when a referended PDA or ODA of a Class is changed we must ch...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz 4 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

Extension of the shutdown command for the NOM monitor to set a time value

Using the modify command „F ESYxxx,SHUTDOWN=NOM” to shutdown the NOM monitor, the NOM monitor is working until there is "nothing" left to do. So it is not possible to get the NOM monitor down in a predictable time. The only possibility is to shutd...
Christina Möllenberg 4 months ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Output Management (NOM) 0 Under Review

Natural Command Console for Mainframes on the Linux

The usability of NaturalONE is obviously constrained since there is no Command Console available in NaturalONE where NDV is NOT mainframe.
Richard Zollner over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Under Review

Add the Adabas Control block, including command options to DEVENTLOG info

It will help to find the root cause of RC 145 if in the information provided by DEVENTLOG would include the Adabas Control block and the command options
Enrique Sambrano 4 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Remove Natural file number limit

It does not make sense that a supported version ofOpen Systems Natural or any Natural utility (I.E. SYSDDM) would have a limitationwhere afile number would need to be 5000 or less whenOpen SystemsAdabas has not had that limitation for a long time....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Predict (PRD) 0 Planned

Securing online Event Replicator functions

As suggested in Support Incident 5220314, we would like to use ADASAF to secure Event Replicator Subsystem functions as is currently done with AOS. Specifically, we would like to secure access to SYSRPTR, as well as Administration Functions - Data...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Event Replicator Server (ARF) / Security 0 Under development

Invoking ADABAS SAFfunctionality in batch

It would be useful to have the abiltiy to perform ADABAS SAF functons, such as Display SAF Statistics or Refresh User Stats and Cashed Files or Logoff User or Restart Server, in batch. This could be implemented via ADADBS options or NATURALAPIto A...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas SAF Security (AAF) / Security 0 Under Review