This document covers the following topics:
With Natural Version 6.3.4, a new database driver ADA2 is delivered that supports features introduced with Adabas 6 (Open Systems) and Adabas 8 (mainframe). This includes support of Adabas large objects fields, Adabas LA fields and extended Adabas buffer lengths.
See also Adabas Database Management Interfaces ADA and ADA2 in the Programming Guide.
It is now possible to use mixed case field names in the data area editor when working with a mainframe source in a SPoD environment. See Data Area Editor Options in Using Natural Studio.
An enhanced logging information system is now provided. See Logging Information in the Natural Web I/O Interface documentation.
The following additional Natural Web I/O Interface service commands can now be specified:
nwosvcd -help
nwosvcd -show
nwosvcd -config
-logging=option
See Natural Web I/O Interface Service Commands in the Natural Web I/O Interface documentation.
The prerequisite for using the Natural Web I/O Interface client on a Java EE-based server has changed. It is now required that Java Runtime 5 or above is installed.
It is now possible to define a different trace directory for IIS.
It is now possible to enable tracing for a session on a Java EE-based server
(Sun Application Server and JBoss Application Server). To do so, you set the
trace attribute in a session definition to
"true".
In case of problems with the Natural Web I/O Interface client or Natural for Ajax on a Java EE-based server, you can now enable logging and thus write the logging information to an output file. See Logging in the Natural Web I/O Interface documentation.
For a VT (UNIX) session, it is now possible to define individual screen sizes. When a screen size other than the default screen size (24*80) is required, open the configuration file NATSHARE411.SAG using the Configuration Manager. Then duplicate the session named "NATURAL-VT" and define the required screen size in the duplicated session.
Moreover, the environment variables
COLUMNS and LINES
have to be set to the new screen size before the Natural Development Server is
started. If the procedure template natdvsrv.tpl is used
for invoking the Natural Development Server during system startup, the
environment variables can be defined in the template.
The following changes are planned for future versions of Natural.
With Natural Version 6.3.4, the database driver ADA is still used by default.
With a future version of Natural, the default setting for the database driver will change to ADA2.
With a future version of Natural, the handling of the
TF parameter will be
changed.
Currently, it is only possible to use the asterisk (*) notation for the database ID (DBID) and file number (FNR) of the production database. In a future version, it will also be possible to use the asterisk notation for the database ID and file number of the test database. It may then be possible that your applications will behave in a different way.
