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What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to?

What are the ADABAS-DBIDs my current Natural session is connected to? There's no USR-Subprogram giving the answer to that question. Sample:Imagine the following: Let's say my UDB is set to 001. DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 VIEW01 VIEW MYFILE1-DB12 /* DBID...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Future consideration

Natural One Version 8.3.6 - Mainframe Navigation

Please find below our comments as regards Natural One Version 8.3.6 bundle Mainframe Navigation facility. · Our suggestion for improvement 1. When editing z/OS JCL no JCL syntax highlighting facility is available. 2. Provide at least one h...
Guest almost 4 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

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

Profiler y Code Coverage

1. Development Process (NaturalONE) Code Coverage: According to the documentation (after several redirections in this documentation), it is not possible to use the Code Coverage from NaturalONE in Online mode in Mainframe environments. To use it f...
Fernando Díaz almost 3 years ago in NaturalONE / Usability 1 Future consideration

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

Natural Editor - Change Tile Vertically behaviour

I would expect choosing 'Tile Vertically' that all open program, LDA etc. windows are tiled while maximizing vertical space over horizontal space. However, I can stretch my Natural editor over several screens (5760 x 1080) and the tiling does not ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Future consideration

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

Kerberos support

Hi, We use Jacada to generate the GUI interface for our main Enterprise Server application. The user is prompted through COMPLETE for their RACF userid/password. We currently are required to logon to our workstations with a Personal Identity Verif...
Guest almost 4 years ago in JIS & JI 0 Future consideration

ADABAS Caching - Separate Priorities for Cached Components

Hello I wish to recommend a change to ADABAS Caching which allows different caching priorities for the ASSO and Data components of a file. Typically I find that it would be very useful to have the ability to vary the ASSO priority from the file's ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas Caching Facility (ACF) 0 Future consideration

ACE - Enhance Data Dictionary Comparison Tool

The Data Dictionary Comparison Tool is a very helpful utility for comparing one CDD to another. It would be even more helpful if a CDD could be compared against an Adabas FDT. There are times I would like to knowthat allchangesmade to Adabas files...
Guest almost 4 years ago in CONNX 1 Future consideration