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Higher precision for *CPU-TIME

We need a higher precision for *CPU-TIME so that we can determine the CPU time consumed by individual RPC requests in a batch RPC server. The vast majority of our transactions are faster than 10ms. We currently do this using an assembler program, ...
Alexander Schuster 4 days ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 New

Correct display of "Unused Blocks" in Display File Layout with SYSAOS or ADAREP

The information on UNUSED BLOCKS of Adabas file components like AC, UI, NI or DS displayed in SYSAOS as well as with ADAREP does not reflect the real situation regarding free blocks. What is shown instead is the number of blocks never used since...
Tatjana Sawtschenko 6 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Support automatic struct of source when saved

Make NaturalONE "struct" the source whenever it is saved, like if the stuct command was given just before the source was saved. This struct command should of cause support stuct=on and struct=off in the source. To be supported by a switch to switc...
Jesper Orland about 2 months ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Under Review

Option to hide System Libraries

In Natural Server view of NaturalOne, two nodes are always shown : User Libraries and System Libraries. We need an option to hide the System Libraries. At present even if there are no links to system libraries, the 'System Libraries' node is shown...
Jamal Alwaye 25 days ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Future consideration

support NaturalHA client with NWO on z/OS

From SoftwareAG:" To run the NHA Client against an NWO Server on the mainframe is not supported currently and was not part of the expected use case." We are currently migrating away from our Mainframe to Linux and we want to use the same client (N...
Chris Williams 3 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / High Availability / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned

Command interface to LIST XREF in a subprogram

Just like SYSMAIN has a MAINUSER subprogram interface for direct commands, it would be very useful to have the same for LIST XREF. Right now, we are limited to accessing SYSDIC ourselves, using TEST DBLOG to figure out how you guys do it, then cop...
Claes Norreen 2 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Utilities 6 Future consideration

Eliminate Natural vulnerability for impersonation

Natural can be easily cheated by the tool called fakeroot. It can be used to change environment variable UID, which is read by Natural to set *INIT-USER variable. Natural gets UID different from user that is logged in linux and If AUTO=ON is also ...
Slawomir Borzymowski about 1 month ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Security 0 Under Review

Support ARM processors

natural and adabas support for ARM
Chris Williams 4 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Re-Hosting 1 Under Review

anonymisierte Dumps in z/OS IBM Data Privacy for Diagnostics

Auf einer GSE-Tagung wurde von IBM in 2021 für DB2 eine Option für anonymisierte Dumps in z/OS vorgestellt: Setzen des Attributs sensitive=yes (data privacy for diagnostics) Bisher unterstützt ADABAS dieses das "Tagging" von sensitiven Memory Loka...
Walter Schulte 4 months ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 New

Enhance Hyperdescriptor Exit for Natural Mainframe Server to cover other areas too

With Natural 9.1.2 we introduced a hyperdescriptor exit NATHX15 to improve the performance when reading Natural object names on a Mainframe server.This exit was enhanced with Natural 9.2.1 to also fast read Natural library names. It should be cons...
Stefan Diehl about 1 month ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Development Server (NDV) / Utilities 0 Planned