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COMPRESS with Edit Mask

Change Enhancement: It would be useful & intuitive for the COMPRESS statement to support Edit Masks. . Business Case: We waste a lot of statements & require temporary variables just to incorporate formatted fields into a message text. This...
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Monitoring 0 Released

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

Tool to Monitor NDV

Sometimes our NDV server is consistently using higher than normal CPU and it appears if something is looping. There is no way to investigate this other than the MONITOR which gives you very limited information. We use NDV for SPoD and NatOne. We n...
Maria Monedero about 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Development Server (NDV) 2 Released

Allow NWO to work with more than one CICS

Allow NWO to be able to connect to more than one CICS, so it can service more concurrent transactions, and improve scalability to the environment, including more CICS as needed.
Fabio Shinji Hirakawa over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Web I/O Interface (NWO) 0 Released

NWO portshare support

Allow NWO to work with TCP portshare, to allow load balance between two NWO instances on the same port. It is an importante factor for the groth of the environment.
Fabio Shinji Hirakawa over 2 years ago in Natural for z/OS / Natural Web I/O Interface (NWO) 0 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