This document describes the Natural User Access Method which is an interface for third party vendor products for Natural print and/or work file support.
This section covers the following topics:
The NATAMUSR
module provides an exit interface (entry point
NATAM9EX
) for software vendors to handle Natural print and work
files, that is, it actually consists of two parts:
the Natural User Access Method stub NATAMUSR
delivered
with Natural and
the Natural User Access Method exit NATAM9EX
delivered by
a software vendor.
The NATAMUSR
module (with the access method exit) may be
installed in one of the following ways:
linked to the environment-independent nucleus,
linked to the environment-dependent nucleus,
linked to an alternative
Natural parameter module (as loaded via profile parameter
PARM
),
linked as a separate module; in this case, the following Natural profile parameters are required:
RCA=(NATAM09),RCALIAS=(NATAM09,xxx),
where xxx is the name of the separate module in the load library.
The environment-independent nucleus and the environment-dependent nucleus are described in Natural Nucleus Components for z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000 in the Natural Installation documentation.
To invoke the third party product for Natural print and/or work file processing
For details about the Natural User Access Method exit installation and other information about the third party exit handler, refer to the documentation of the relevant software vendor.