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Natural RPC - Buffer pool closing procedure

Having defined a NTBPI macro with: GBP, SEQ=0 and LBP, SEQ=1, if GBP is closed while the Natural sesión is active, Natural attemps to connect the LBP. But for a Natural RPC it doesn't work in the same way. In our installation we have configured AL...
Jose Dario Rudz 5 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

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 almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Allow spacer element (“1X”) in COMPRESS statement

With a COMPRESS statement the contents of one or more operands (Vari or Const) can be concatenated into a single target field. Beside some other options, two different clauses are available to determine the value separation behavior. (1) With LEAV...
Thomas Frischmann 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Planned

READ DESCENDING BY ISN

Background: Occasionally, we want to access the LAST record in a file, but there is no simple way to do this. For Adabas files with the option ISN-Reusage=No,a feature such as READ (1) DESCENDING BY ISN would achieve this requirement simply & ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural for Adabas (NAC) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Released

Filler notation for WRITE WORK FILE

Enhancement Request: Please consider allowing filler notation (nX) with the WRITE WORK FILE statement. Example: WRITE WORK FILE 1 VARIABLE #VAR1 2X #VAR2 5X #VAR3 Reason: Filler notation is intuitive and gives a consistent feel to the language syn...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan

*TIMESTMP (B8) "overflow"

At 17.09.2042 the B8-Variable *TIMESTMP will be "full". In 23 year; compare it with the difference to year 2000. This variable is important. Is there a plan to solve the problem? In coordination with IBM (Store clock)? *TIMESTMP is use for time me...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

AND, OR, XOR for binary fields

It is currently not possible to do any "binary" operation on binary fields, like AND, OR, XOR or NOT. This makes declarations of particular bit-constants quasi useless, e.g. ... 3 #TB_VDT_FLAG (B01) /* various property flags...1 #TB_VDT_FLAG_VALUE...
Philippe Van Coppenolle about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Allow Edit-Mask Left & Right on MOVE EDITED

MOVE EDITED only permits 1 Edit-Mask on the left or right hand side. It would save many lines-of-code if 2 Edit-Masks were allowed, left AND right.Effectively, MOVE EDITED is an Alpha Move:one side is alpha & the Edit-Mask reduces the other si...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Not in Plan
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