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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

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

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

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 & ...

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

*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

NSC Library security profile maintenance logs enhancements

Two points that do not work as they should in"Library Security Profile Maintenance Logs"1.for displaying the modified additional optionsof the function "add/mod special link"i.e.:SYSSEC MainmenuMaintenance log recordsOLIselect a "add/mod special l...
Christina Möllenberg over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Released