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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 almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Monitoring 0 Released

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

Allow (CV=) after a literal string

Natural allows the use of dynamic control variables during INPUT and WRITE. BUT: the use of those (CV=<control_variable>) is restricted to a variable, not to a literal text. If you want to have a different visual behavior for a string, you m...
Philippe Van Coppenolle about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

Natural should be able to detect the problem with having the MF value and the static generation value different

Natural should be able to detect the problem with having the MF value and the static generation value different and either 1. automatically adjust in some fashion 2. at least, give a message that identifies the problem, so we don't have to spend 2...
Jay Baucher about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural for Db2 (NDB/NDB) 4 Released

Function "ODD()"

If you want to know if a number is odd or even, you can do the following now: IF #I <> #I / 2 * 2 THEN ... END-IF This takes however quite a bit of CPU, but it can already by simplified by following declarations: 1 #I (I4)1 REDEFINE #I 2 FIL...
Philippe Van Coppenolle almost 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Future consideration

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

NSC: Maintenance Log Records: output options

The output possibilities of Maintenance log records should be enhanced in the following way: 1. Only the modified fields should be listed, not the complete NSC profile of the object type (eg. Library, User). 2. In case of a modification, the 'old ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Released
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