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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 5 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 5 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 5 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 6 months ago in Entire System Management and Cronus / Entire Output Management (NOM) 0 Under Review

Port NaturalONE as a Visual Studio Code Extension

Create a Visual Studio Code extension to support the development of Natural language. Also integrate all current NaturalONE functionality like NDV support, WebIO execution, etc.
Martin Basso over 2 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 4 Planned

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 6 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

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

adasel: getting actual lob field reference

//DDSIIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=QSYSCM.DB004.PLOG.D220411 //DDCARD DD * ADARUN PROG=ADASEL,DB=004,SVC=235,DE=8393,DSF=YES /* //DDKARTE DD * SELECT ALL RECORDS FROM FILE 2811 WITH ISN = 11119 DISPLAY ALL END // instead of just giving the text 'lob field...
Ernst Chvatal over 2 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Usability / Utilities 3 New

Allow for I8 datatype

OpenSystems hardware has it for a long time, z/Series has it for quite a while now, so by now there is no platform NOT natively supporting 64-bit arithmetic. So please introduce an I8 datatype into Natural - on all supported platforms (and NOC as ...
Wolfgang Winter over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

Dynamic load of STPNAT module.

Would it be possible in z/OS to enable Natural to dynamically load STPNAT module (for example, via RCA= ). If this can be done we can decouple the Natural Nucleus from a dependency of STPNAT, and be less concerned when an STPNAT zap needs to be ap...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Under Review
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