This document covers the following topics:
The documentation for the
SYSMAIN utility has been completely
revised.
The utility SYSEXT provides the following new
application programming interface (API):
| API | Description |
|---|---|
USR4208N |
Read or write shared resource. |
Natural for UNIX now includes the international support which was previously only provided with the international version of Natural 6.1.1.
Bidirectional languages and double-byte characters are now supported. For detailed information on how to activate these features, see the sections Bidirectional Language Support and Double-Byte Character Support in the Unicode and Code Page Support documentation.
The following has changed (as compared with the international version of Natural 6.1.1):
The environment variable RTL_BW_COMP is
no longer supported. Natural no longer supports logical resorting of the
characters during input; the characters are always displayed in the keying
sequence for left-to-right fields and in the reversed keying sequence for
right-to-left-fields.
The environment variable NATLANG is no
longer supported. For enabling the international support, the setting of the
profile parameter CP is now used.
The locale files (previously installed in etc/locale) which were delivered with the international version of Natural 6.1.1 are no longer supported.
Month and day names are now retrieved from the Natural text/error message files.
Character property information such as "is the character upper case" is retrieved from the ICU library which is used for the Unicode support.
Using the AM/PM strings from the locale files is no longer supported.
Using the year edit masks EC, EE,
EV and EY is no longer supported.
Characters which are entered in a right-to-left field are no longer automatically converted according to the keymap defined in the locale files. Natural now uses the characters which are delivered from the operating system, which is compatible to the Windows behavior. Changing the input language has to be achieved by executing the appropriate operating system functions.
The Object Handler now automatically recognizes the type of the load
file for the load and scan functions. It is no longer necessary to specify the
correct load file type. The user interface of the Object
Handler has not been changed due to compatibility reasons, however, the
Portable work file option will not be evaluated for the
load and scan functions. See the description of
WORKFILETYPE in
Keyword Explanation of
option-setting.
The
DELETEALLOWED option can be used in an
Object Handler direct command to specify that the delete instructions from work
files created with NATUNLD (which is no
longer installed by default) are processed. This option is also available as of
Natural Version 6.1.
The system command
CATALL can now be used in
batch mode. The direct command syntax has been enhanced
accordingly.
This section provides additional information that you should be aware of after having installed Natural.
The following error message is new for this version of Natural in order to improve the edit mask handling and the compatibility between Natural for Windows, Natural for UNIX and Natural for Mainframes.
| Error Message | Description |
|---|---|
| NAT1145 |
Input does not match edit mask :1:. NAT1145 replaces NAT1143 in case of interactive input/output. This new error advises the user of the expected input format for the current field. |
This section provides an overview of functionality no longer supported with this Natural version.
Natural Expert models are no longer displayed in the list of object types.
