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Parameter and Local Variables for Inline Subroutines

Since I´ve been programming Natural (30 Years!) I miss the possibility to give my Natural Programs a good structure by defining exactly the scope of variables used in inline subroutines as it is possible in all established programming languages li...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

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 6 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to?

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to? There's no USR-Subprogram giving the answer to that question. Sample:Imagine the following: Let's say my UDB is set to 001. DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 VIEW01 VIEW MYFILE1-DB12 /* DBID...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Future consideration

Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Secure storage/retrieval of passwords such as EXX passwords

Currently, calling secured EntireX services requires calling RPC-CNTX or USR2071N/USR2702N/USR2074N/etc to pass in a user id and password. There's no provision for providing anything other than a clear text password, so it ends up in clear text in...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

ONE: E_0285 MOVE ALL with SUBSTRING option

The SUBSTRING function in MOVE ALL has not yet been implemented in Natural LUW and ONE.The statement MOVE ALL 'string' TO SUBSTR(field,n,m) results in the following errors: NAT0285 Field reference error; reference invalid or missing. (Natural)E_02...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

New System Variable B9-TIMESTMP

For a simpler conversion from the System Variable *TIMESTMP, which expires in 2042, to a timestamp extended by a leading epoch byte, a new System Variable in the format B9 would be helpful. This should be structured analogously to the already plan...
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud 1 Future consideration

Clear lock files on Linux boot to avoid system downs.

If - after a UNIX/Linux boot - there are lock files left behind in /tmp these files may cause all attempts to start Natural to fail with startup error 35 . There are many product support incidents for this problem - many of these indicate that com...
Bjarne Soerensen over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Define INDEPENDENT-variablen in LDAs

Hi, I would like to define INDEPENDENT-variablen in a separte file, like LDAs vor lokal variable. So I could define the indeoendent-variables once and could integrate them with DEFINE DATA INDEPENDENT USING XYZ END-DEFINE Best regards, Markus Weßj...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Natural Editor - Change Tile Vertically behaviour

I would expect choosing 'Tile Vertically' that all open program, LDA etc. windows are tiled while maximizing vertical space over horizontal space. However, I can stretch my Natural editor over several screens (5760 x 1080) and the tiling does not ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration
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