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Eliminate Natural vulnerability for impersonation

Natural can be easily cheated by the tool called fakeroot. It can be used to change environment variable UID, which is read by Natural to set *INIT-USER variable. Natural gets UID different from user that is logged in linux and If AUTO=ON is also ...
Slawomir Borzymowski about 1 month ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Security 0 New

Support ARM processors

natural and adabas support for ARM
Chris Williams 4 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Re-Hosting 1 Under Review

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry

It will be best when Natural will support opentelemetry
Hezi Shirazi 7 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Under Review

Allow account verification in the AD and in FSEC in case of absence of the account

Several categories of people use our application under Natural, the vast majority having an AD account. However, a minority of people are temporary workers who do not have an AD account and who connect locally to the production site. In this sc...
Maximilien BARBIER 5 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural Security (NSC) 0 Planned

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

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 over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

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 about 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 2 Under Review

Remove Natural file number limit

It does not make sense that a supported version ofOpen Systems Natural or any Natural utility (I.E. SYSDDM) would have a limitationwhere afile number would need to be 5000 or less whenOpen SystemsAdabas has not had that limitation for a long time....
Guest over 3 years ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) / Natural Security (NSC) / Predict (PRD) 0 Planned

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 5 months ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Future consideration

New System-Variable UUID

Currently, we use *TIMESTMP(X) as a unique reference and foreign key in database-files. To be able to generate unique keys for the database entries, even in the case of distributed Natural-installations (in the future clusters or via entire networ...
Detlef Ziermann over 1 year ago in Natural for Linux and Cloud / Natural (NAT) 0 Planned