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Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM): TotalUC#2 new Use count field for depicting Level-1 executions of natural objects

Under Natural Buffer Pool (SYSBPM), we noticed while investigating a performance issue in production that when a Natural Object has multi-level, the TotalUC value for the primary object is a cumulative sum of all the sub-routines being called. Th...
Zaffer Khan about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 4 Future consideration

option to not include data format/length when importing data fields

when using the Advanced Edit option to Insert Data Fields, the length and format (e.g. "(A1)" is always included, even for DDM fields. An option should be available to suppress these lengths and formats for fields that inherit the length/format fr...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under development

display of system variables in debugger needs qualifying references

when debugging a program with many database access loops, the *ISN, *NUMBER, *COUNTER variables are listed without qualification as to which loop/statement they come from, resulting in a guessing game as to which is relevant. Could the line number...
Douglas Kelly over 1 year ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

New System-Variable UUID

Currently, we use *TIMESTMP(X) as a unique reference and foreign key in database-files. To be able to generate unique keys for the database entries, even in the case of distributed Natural-installations (in the future clusters or via entire networ...
Detlef Ziermann almost 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under development

Copy SYSOUT Files not only to BS2000 Nodes, but to Linux Nodes also

In 'Job maintenance', for Unix and Windows jobs, it is possible to define a handover of SYSOUT files from the execution system to a BS2000 system. This is done by setting a 'SYSOUT node' (together with a 'SYSOUT Cat ID' and a 'SYSOUT User ID') in ...
Hermann Pfeiffer about 2 years ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Operation (NOP) 0 Under development

Stow in debug perspective

It should be possible to stow NATURAL objects also in the debug perspective. The icons are actual inactive.
Reiner Koester about 2 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned

Long-Alpha field support in Replicator

“ADABAS currently supports Long-Alpha fields. We are now using Replicator to replicate from our Adabas files into Sql Server tables. Unfortunately at this time, Replicator does not seem to support replicating the long alpha fields. We would like t...
David Wilbur almost 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Event Replicator Server (ARF) 0 New

Avoid database corruption by second nucleus start.

If the database resides in remote or mirrored disks - it could happen that a second nucleus comes up on the same database container files and does an autorestart which will corrupt the database. Introduce fail-safe measures to detect and avoid thi...
Bjarne Soerensen over 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) 3 Under development

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

ONE: Improve Content assist

1. Documentation says: "To invoke content assist Enter a keyword or part of it and press CTRL+SPACEBAR." In most cases that does not make sense. A blank is needed behind the keyword. The documentation mentions this only with the example. "For exa...
Guest almost 4 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Planned
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