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COMPRESS with Edit Mask

Change Enhancement: It would be useful & intuitive for the COMPRESS statement to support Edit Masks. . Business Case: We waste a lot of statements & require temporary variables just to incorporate formatted fields into a message text. This...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Monitoring 0 Released

Tool to Monitor NDV

Sometimes our NDV server is consistently using higher than normal CPU and it appears if something is looping. There is no way to investigate this other than the MONITOR which gives you very limited information. We use NDV for SPoD and NatOne. We n...
Maria Monedero about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 2 Released

Allow NWO to work with more than one CICS

Allow NWO to be able to connect to more than one CICS, so it can service more concurrent transactions, and improve scalability to the environment, including more CICS as needed.
Fabio Shinji Hirakawa over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Web I/O Interface (NWO) 0 Released

NWO portshare support

Allow NWO to work with TCP portshare, to allow load balance between two NWO instances on the same port. It is an importante factor for the groth of the environment.
Fabio Shinji Hirakawa over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Web I/O Interface (NWO) 0 Released

WRITE WORK FILE / allow <work-file-number> to be a named constant

The syntax of the WRITE WORK FILE statement forces the to be an explicit numeric literal (ex: 1, 7, 22). It should be possible to use a named constant instead. Benefits: - code beomes more readable. - Searching inside a program becomes morehandy (...
Christian Held over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Identify which skeleton's are used when JCL is generated in SMA

When JCL is generated for a JOB in SMA, we do not know which SKELETON's are being used. If we need to customize the SKELETON to meet customer standards then we have to hunt for the right skeleton that was pulled in. What I ended up doing was addin...
Raul Chiriboga 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

NAT: COMPRESS LOGICAL variable

It is possible to MOVE a field of format L to a field of format A. But it is not possible to COMPRESS a field of format L into a field of format A. This should be made possible, following the rules of a MOVE: TRUE as x'E7' FALSE as x'40' Example...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Option to Obtain Dynamic Execution Info

Analysts researching which Natural objects using Dynamic SQL are causing issues such as DB/2 Locking Based on the feedback from SAG (*pasted below), Please create a utility for NDBIOMO (Dynamic Natural SQL) with the option to capture and enable No...
Rick Poirier over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural for Db2 (NDB/NDB) 1 Released

Generate SYSOBJH WORKPLAN LISTs from Predict

Rather than hand-coding the WORKPLAN lists, would be better to have something like a Generation option in Predict to create the SYSOBJH WORKPLAN (in spite of the name clash with Predict's "workplan" feature). Enabling us to create and manipulate t...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Predict (PRD) 0 Released

Naural API to retrieve 'DUMP ZAPS' information

It would be nice to have an API method of retrieving the information provided by the DUMP ZAPS command. When working with the application and testing of zaps applied to the various core and sub-product components of Natural, having a programmatic ...
David Gahring about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 3 Released