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Extend Natural Objectnames to 32 Byte

Natural Newbees are shocked, when they find out, that Objectnames in Natural are maximum 8 Bytes long. It is like DOS in the 90ties. So Natural should allow Objectnames to 32 Byte (Natural for Open Systems), An alternative would be, to extend the ...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz about 1 month ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 New

handle db connection with rpc server

Hi, In our environment we are using REST API to access Natural RPC servers. I have noticed that the RPC process isn’t closing its db (adabas) connections. Using ADAOPR DI=UQ_FILE I saw that NATRPC is still holding files that a request that had ran...
Hezi Shirazi 2 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 New

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 4 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 New

can NATRPC39 be called after sending response?

Currently NATRPC39 is called before a reply to an RPC request is sent to Broker. If this could be moved to after the reply is sent, it would reduce the impact on performance for RPC calls by doing the NATRPC39 exit work after the reply was sent on...
Douglas Kelly 5 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 New

Examine command new options

Add new features for Examine command: Let assume I have a string dynamic array: #str (a/1:6) dynamic const <"10","1","31","20","2","21"> I want to search for the string "1" in that array, so I want to get index 2 that it is exactly the same ...
Hezi Shirazi 8 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 4 Not in Plan

Static variables such as *line-counter(rep)

Variables such as *page-num(rep) or *line-counter(rep) should be static, and I will be able toin any modules in process how many pages are already in rep-id and how many line *line-counter(rep) in current page Maybe, there are more variables that ...
Hezi Shirazi 9 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Expand X-Arrays by variable

We would like to be able to expand tables (X-ARRAYS) via a statement: EXPAND ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#VAR-INT>
Detlef Ziermann 9 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Sort of ARRAYs

We would like to be able to sort tables according to a defined field of the table via a simple statement: SORT ARRAY <#X-ARRAY-VAR> BY <#SORT-FIELD>
Detlef Ziermann 9 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Regular expressions in logical condition

We would like to use regular expressions in logical conditions. E.g. IF <#VAR> = REGEX (.*search_text_1.*\..*search_text_2)
Detlef Ziermann 9 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

on-error-cmd

Hi as we have on error cmd in a module level, it will be very helpful to have same upon a cmd level (such as in java/c$/python & etc: try/catch)
Hezi Shirazi 11 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Not in Plan