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It would great to be able to use environment variables (e.g. $sys_udv, $sys_tst – further see below) when mapping an environment. Simply include these variables as dynamic parameters when forking the new process from the NDV server.
Background
To setup various environments for a customer, we have defined a number of environment variables (example):
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export sys_udv="fuser=22,1 fdic=1,6 fsec=1,7 udb=1" (… and so on for additional environments) |
In Linux “native mode” various Natural sessions can be started simply by entering “udv” or “tst” because the alias includes an environment variable.
The same definitions we would like to reuse from NaturalOne.
Benefit
This would reduce the number of natural parameter modules we have to maintain.
Also a compensation for the lack of NTSYS and SYSPARM functionality that is available on mainframe but not on LUW
Enabled both for Software AG Designer (eclipse) and Natural Studio (should be easy because the NDV server at the end is the same).
And enabled for both NDV on Linux and Windows.
(reference: SI-464322 Use of “variables” in map of environment?)
NATPARM is the preferred and recommended way of setting up environment parameters.
Adding additional option will make it complex.