Natural Advanced Facilities

This documentation contains detailed information which you will need when you want to spool the output of your Natural programs and route it to specific physical printers. It applies to all platforms and TP monitors with which Natural Advanced Facilities can be used: CICS, IMS TM and BS2000/OSD. As a rule, the screens in this documentation apply to the CICS version.

In the remainder of this documentation, Natural Advanced Facilities is also referred to as NAF.

The NAF documentation covers the following topics:

Introduction Gives a general overview of Natural Advanced Facilities and explains the basic terminology. It also tells you how to start NATSPOOL and how to invoke a NATSPOOL function.
Administration Describes Functions 10 to 15 of the Administration section of the NATSPOOL menu.
Information Describes Functions 20 to 23 of the Information section of the NATSPOOL menu.
Maintenance Describes Functions 30 to 34 of the Maintenance section of the NATSPOOL menu.
Control Functions Describes Functions 40 to 43 of the Control Functions section of the NATSPOOL menu.
Natural Features Supported Describes the Natural features supported by Natural Advanced Facilities and how these features can be used.
NATSPOOL and Natural Security Describes the Natural Security features supported by Natural Advanced Facilities and how these features can be used.
Features in a CICS Environment Explains the features of Natural Advanced Facilities specific to a CICS environment.
Features in an IMS TM Environment Explains the features of Natural Advanced Facilities specific to an IMS TM environment.
Features in a BS2000/OSD Environment Explains the features of Natural Advanced Facilities specific to a BS2000/OSD environment.
Natural Profile Parameters for NATSPOOL Describes the profile parameters which must be defined in the Natural parameter module.
NATSPOOL Initialization Lists all steps that are required to create the NATSPOOL environment.
NATSPOOL in Batch Mode Explains how to store reports on the spool file using Natural batch jobs.
NATSPOOL under TSO Explains how to store reports on the spool file under TSO.

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