This document covers the following topics:
The following new Natural parameter is provided in this version:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
SRVRTRY
|
Specifies the number of attempts for an RPC
server to connect/reconnect (REGISTER) to an EntireX Broker that
is not active, and the wait time between two successive attempts.
|
The program editor now provides the Incremental Find function to find specific text in a program source while typing the search string to be found. See Finding Text in the Program Editor section of the Editors documentation.
The version information format used for the
COMPATIBILITY and
VERSION attributes has
changed to support 2-digit version components.
The following PROCESS GUI statement actions are new:
GET-FIRST-WINDOW and
GET-NEXT-WINDOW.
For detailed information, see the corresponding sections in the Dialog Component Reference.
The new parameter SRVRTRY can also be specified
in the Configuration Utility. See
Remote Procedure Call in the
Configuration Utility documentation.
If the access to Natural for Ajax applications is protected on JBoss Application Server, it is now possible to forward the security credentials to the Natural Web I/O Interface server, thus sparing the user a second logon. In the configuration tool, the new session option Forward Java EE credentials is available for this purpose.
It is now possible to disconnect from Natural without showing the disconnect page. In the configuration tool, the new session option Disconnect behavior is available for this purpose. You can define whether the disconnect page is to be shown when a Natural program ends (default), or whether the current browser tab is to be closed.
In previous versions, a blank after the equal sign (=) of the
EM parameter in the
MOVE
EDITED statement was illegally accepted during compilation.
This has been corrected. Error NAT0023 is now returned.
Example:
MOVE EDITED #N (EM= 999) TO ... /* NAT0023 is now returned MOVE EDITED ... TO #A (EM= XXX) /* NAT0023 is now returned
As of Natural Version 6.3.9, floating-point numbers that are displayed
due to Natural I/O will be rounded to the floating-point mantissa length used
for display. This also affects the display when the
FL parameter is used and when
a floating-point number is assigned to an alphanumeric field.
Example:
DEFINE DATA LOCAL 1 #F8 (F8) 1 #A (A30) END-DEFINE * MOVE 5.1234567892345678E00 TO #F8 WRITE #F8 * WRITE #F8 (FL=7) * MOVE #F8 TO #A WRITE #A * END
Results in Natural Version 6.3.8:
+5.123456789234567E+00 +5.123456E+00 +5.123456789234567E+00
Results in Natural Version 6.3.9:
+5.123456789234568E+00 +5.123457E+00 +5.123456789234568E+00
See also Arithmetic Operations with Floating-Point Numbers in the Programming Guide.
With Natural Version 6.3.7, the
SYSEXV utility provided new sample
programs for the new DDM EMPLOYEES-V2009 (Adabas 6.1.6 support).
As of Natural Version 6.3.9, the new program V637INFO
(Readme Information) is also available, providing detailed information on how
to get the data from the new EMPLOYEES file. This program can be
found in the menu of the SYSEXV
utility.
It is now recommended that you use Adabas 6.1.8 or higher.
List boxes in Natural dialogs and object lists in Natural Studio now use a locale-dependent sort. There are two main consequences of this change:
Diacritics are now collated correctly. For example, in German, "ä", "ö" and "ü" are now handled as either the corresponding base characters ("a", "o", or "u") or as "ae", "oe" or "ue", depending on whether a dictionary or "phone book" sort sequence has been chosen for the system-wide regional settings in the Control Panel. Previously, the umlaut characters were being treated as independent characters that collated after any Latin characters in lists with ascending sort sequence.
Note:
Object names with diacritics are not explicitly supported and are
only allowed if the character validation tables in
NATCONV.INI have been extended appropriately.
The list items are effectively compared case-insensitively, with a case-sensitive comparison only being used as a "tie-breaker". Previously, all items were sorted case-sensitively according to the character positions in the corresponding code page.
This should lead to more intuitive sorting in most situations. For example, suppose a list box had previously shown the following contents in ascending sequence:
Andrew Barry James John Julie Robert Sandra jenny
Note that "jenny" appears at the bottom of the list because the name has been (possibly inadvertently) entered with an initial lower-case character. In contrast, the new sort sequence for these items is:
Andrew Barry James jenny John Julie Robert Sandra
Natural Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is available as a separate subcomponent of Natural. It has its own version number. This measure takes into account that Natural RPC is a cross-platform component and makes it possible to provide new Natural RPC versions independent of new Natural versions for the various platforms supported.
With Natural Version 6.3.9, an enhanced Natural Remote Procedure Call Version 6.3.4 is delivered that replaces the existing Natural RPC Version 6.3.3.3.
The following changes and enhancements are available.
The Natural RPC Server has been extended to support EntireX RPC clients
(EntireX 8.2.0) using Natural redefinitions (REDEFINE statement)
and other features introduced with the IDL Extractor for Natural (EntireX
8.2.0). The IDL Extractor for Natural has been extended with a graphical user
interface to complete the extraction process with user decisions. This allows
modeling of the Natural server to an IDL and enables selection of the
appropriate (Natural to IDL) mapping where multiple possibilities exist and
where automatic decision taking can lead to incorrect or suboptimal IDL.
Note:
The Natural RPC server still supports EntireX RPC clients built with
previous EntireX versions.
The documentation for the
MP parameter has been
corrected. Other than documented with previous versions, it is not possible to
use MP as a dynamic parameter when invoking Natural.
The Natural for Ajax documentation which is included in this Natural documentation now pertains to Version 8.1.2. It is based on Application Designer Version 8.0.
The Release Notes for Natural for Ajax Version 8.1.2 can be found in Empower, Software AG's global extranet, at https://empower.softwareag.com/
