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Identify which skeleton's are used when JCL is generated in SMA

When JCL is generated for a JOB in SMA, we do not know which SKELETON's are being used. If we need to customize the SKELETON to meet customer standards then we have to hunt for the right skeleton that was pulled in. What I ended up doing was addin...
Raul Chiriboga 11 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

Naural API to retrieve 'DUMP ZAPS' information

It would be nice to have an API method of retrieving the information provided by the DUMP ZAPS command. When working with the application and testing of zaps applied to the various core and sub-product components of Natural, having a programmatic ...
David Gahring about 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 3 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 over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

be able to display SYSTP natural roll server statistics using NATBATCH job.

Nissan would like to be able to generate a report that displays the percentage used of the natural roll servers.
Marijane Voyles 8 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 1 Released

Functions SEARCH and VERIFY

PL/1 offers three similar functions for looking in strings: INDEX, which resembles our EXAMINE ... FOR ... POSITION IN .... SEARCH, which returns the position of the first matching character of a given set in a target string VERIFY, which returns ...
Philippe Van Coppenolle 10 months ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Released

NAT: COMPRESS LOGICAL variable

It is possible to MOVE a field of format L to a field of format A. But it is not possible to COMPRESS a field of format L into a field of format A. This should be made possible, following the rules of a MOVE: TRUE as x'E7' FALSE as x'40' Example...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 Released

Generate SYSOBJH WORKPLAN LISTs from Predict

Rather than hand-coding the WORKPLAN lists, would be better to have something like a Generation option in Predict to create the SYSOBJH WORKPLAN (in spite of the name clash with Predict's "workplan" feature). Enabling us to create and manipulate t...
Douglas Kelly over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Predict (PRD) 0 Released

Allow RPC from Natural without forcing ICU to be installed

Directly related to SI-458003 use RPC protocol 2050 without using ICU instead using Natural default code page. This was reviewed and suggested by Software AG RnD. Thanks, Chad Scott - Feb.24, 2022
Chad Scott almost 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) 1 Released

Userexit to write SMF records without switching into TCB mode

We have an ongoing Assembler replacement project and want to get rid of a routine which writes SMF records for statistics data. This routine is called around 60 million times a day from RPC transactions. Every call causes a switch from zIIP to the GP
Alexander Schuster over 1 year ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) 0 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 & ...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Natural for Adabas (NAC) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 0 Released
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