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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 12 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Natural Buffer Pool utility (NATBPMON) should respond with a clear status even when BP is not active , and not with a nasty error message , which is not intuitive

Natural BP is a crucial component for a Natural environment to function properly, If the BP is not active from any reason, it should be brought up ASAP. using the NATBPMON is the main tool for that.Currently when the BP is down, a nasty error mess...
Sagii Achituv over 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

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 11 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 12 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 12 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND

Add the ability to open printer file with flag O_APPEND so it can be rotated with logrotate (copytruncate). Last offset is retained by Natural and everything before that offset is marked as NULL and so the file size is maintained.
Thierry Bolle about 2 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Support process id as variable for print and workfiles

Support process id as variable for print and workfiles Example - this invoke of Natural: natrt.exe BATCHMODE CMPRINT="C:\CMPRINT *PID.LOG" CMPRT01="C:\CMPRT01 *PID.LOG" CMWRK01="C:\CMWRK01 *PID.TXT" and if process id is '4711' CMPRINT becomes "C:\...
Mogens Lundqvist about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Naturalbufferpool

Es sollte möglich sein, das, wenn die max. definierte Useranzahl im Naturalbufferpool erreicht ist,man im Naturalbufferpoolmonitor weiterhin Kommands wie status, who, kill abzusetzen, um in solch einem Fall einzelne User aus dem Naturalbufferpool ...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

USR8210N additional parameter field for filename by function start

Natural parametermodul contains no value in parameterfield "RESNAME", filename for profileing information will be automatically generated (current userID and timestamp). The profileing process is controlled by the SAG routine USR8210N with start/p...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

NaturalONE: Display fieldoffset

For a external sorting procedure, the exact position of field in a dataset is required. Today it is possible to input the dataset in a texteditor and search for the respective record position manually. A great problem is, when all the values are...
Guest about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 1 Under Review