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Generate Natural code from data browser template

Generating a Natural program from the data browser would allow quick coding and adding in extensions to the data browser function
Douglas Kelly 12 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Not in Plan

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

EP#5820 modification of files

modification of files Requestor: D'ARVA SOCIETE Platform: MF SR-Number: 707497 Product Code: ADA Initial Importance: medium Proposal: To access (and update/store) ADABAS data on the mainframe from our Web server, we use EntireX servers (as STCs) w...
Guest over 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / HA 1 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

NSC Password Phrase without Natural ICU Handler

It should be possible to use NSC password phrase for logon even if the „Natural ICU handler“ is not available / activated. Changing old applications to CFICU=ON is not always possible.
Christina Möllenberg 6 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

ADABAS-Utilities: LPB-Limit 32 k too small

The Prefetch Buffer Size (LPB) for utilities is too small (max. 32K). We start a NATURAL-Batch-program with a multi-fetch-buffer (ADARUN PREFSBL = Single-Buffer-Length) of 4.600.000. In this Case we need about 5000 Calls to read a file with 2,3 ...
Reiner Koester about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) / Scalability / Usability / Utilities 3 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 over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under development

Allow program copy/paste/rename within a library on Natural Server

Allow program copy/paste/rename from the Natural Server View within Natural One. These tasks can be accomplished within Project Explorer in the Eclipse Workspace, but creates several additional steps. We are not traditional Natural Developers, rat...
Linda Lyng 7 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 2 Future consideration

ONE: NATstyle: Progress view displays only the library name

During NATstyle the Progress view only displays the name of the library being checked but not the name of the modules. The name of the modules being checked should also be displayed.E.g. in case of an exception (abort) it would be helpful to see w...
Guest over 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Not in Plan