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Be able open an object quickly, by name

I would like NaturalONE to be able to quickly open an object if the developer just have the name of the object. If you want to open an object in the server view, you need first to find that object. If it is in a large library, you will need to gue...
Guest about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 1 Future consideration

Parameter and Local Variables for Inline Subroutines

Since I´ve been programming Natural (30 Years!) I miss the possibility to give my Natural Programs a good structure by defining exactly the scope of variables used in inline subroutines as it is possible in all established programming languages li...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Online reorder of data should not write gigabytes on p-log

Stop or make optional the writing of records moved by online reorder to the protection log. do this to reduce the critical recovery time (restore and regenerate). When you do an online reorder of an Adabas file in a given descriptor sequence the r...
Bjarne Soerensen about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration

Allow for I8 datatype

OpenSystems hardware has it for a long time, z/Series has it for quite a while now, so by now there is no platform NOT natively supporting 64-bit arithmetic. So please introduce an I8 datatype into Natural - on all supported platforms (and NOC as ...
Wolfgang Winter about 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural (NAT) / Programing Syntax (Cross platforms) 1 Future consideration

Stored procedure and triggers (LUW)

the trigger function is not available in Adabas on LUW. We want to execute actions if the content of an adabas field is changed. --- Rerouting to Linux. Was: LUW
Guest about 3 years ago in Adabas for Linux and Cloud / Adabas (ADA-Linux) / Re-Hosting 0 Future consideration

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 about 3 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 about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) 0 Future consideration

NatOne: 2 Way Build: first without, second with parameter check solves all interface problems

When In Natural One an Interface for example a pda of a subprogram is changed, it can happen, that the build process has to be repeated n times, when the pda is used in a chain of n subprograms; if there is a recursive subprogram call using the pd...
Georg Kratz-Kummetz about 3 years ago in NaturalONE / NaturalONE (ONE) / Usability 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Natural trace

We would like to have a way to start and stop a Natural trace dynamically. This will be an excellent tool to analyze on the fly, production problems which are related to the database.
Ilan Hirschowitz about 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe

Customer complaining about complexity of Licence keys on mainframe, we have found that our customers find it difficult to implement the licence keys on mainframe. Whenever there is changes on the hardware configuration they experience problems. AD...
Guest about 3 years ago in Adabas for z/OS / Adabas (ADA-zOS) 0 Future consideration