• NaturalONE

• Natural Optimizer Compiler

• Natural RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

• Natural Security

• Natural SQL Gateway

• Natural zIIP Enabler

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NaturalONE

For information on changes, enhancements and new features available with NaturalONE, see the Release Notes in the NaturalONE documentation in the Documentation section of Software AG's Empower web site at https://empower.softwareag.com/.

Natural Optimizer Compiler

This section describes the new features provided with Natural Optimizer Compiler Version 8.2.7.

New PC Download Option for NOCSTAT Reports

The NOCSTAT command now provides the option to download a report on a PC if Entire Connection is installed.

This works for all report types and output destinations.

For more information, see Generating Reports in the Natural Optimizer Compiler documentation.

Statement Category and Type Improved in NOCSTAT Reports

The values displayed for the reports Statement Category and Statement Type have been corrected for programs cataloged with the Natural Optimizer Compiler. Now, the sum of all values corresponds to the total number of statements.

For more information, see the relevant sections in the Natural Optimizer Compiler documentation.

Natural RPC (Remote Procedure Call)

With Natural Version 8.2.7, an enhanced Natural RPC Version 8.2.7 is delivered which introduces the following changes and enhancements:

• Automatic Character Conversion

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

• SYSRPC Utility

Automatic Character Conversion

webMethods EntireX Broker has a reworked mechanism for character conversion. This mechanism detects incorrect configurations such as RPC communication without configured character conversion. In these cases, the configuration defined in the EntireX Broker attribute file is not used and a warning message is written to the EntireX Broker log file. Adapt your EntireX Broker attribute file to avoid the message.

For details, see the section Broker's Mechanism for Choosing the Character Conversion Approach in Introduction to Internationalization in the webMethods EntireX documentation.

The mechanism is active if the version of the RPC server component is the following (or above):

• EntireX RPC Server (z/OS CICS, z/OS Batch, z/OS IMS, Micro Focus, C, .NET) 9.10

• EntireX RPC Server (Java, CICS ECI, IMS Connect, XML/SOAP, RPC-ACI, IBM MQ) 9.9

• EntireX Adapter 9.9

• Natural RPC Server (Natural Version 8.2.7 for Mainframes, Natural Version 8.4.1 for UNIX, Natural Version 8.4.1 for Windows)

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

The following Natural RPC-specific APIs are new in the SYSEXT system library or have changed:

API	Task
USR2075N	Terminate EntireX Broker service This API now also supports the reserved password *TRUSTED instead of a user-specific password if EntireX Broker security uses the trusted user ID mechanism. For more information, see Using Application Programming Interface USR2075N in the Natural RPC (Remote Procedure Call) documentation. See also Trusted Password allowed in Terminate Command in the section SYSRPC Utility.
USR8208N
USR8213N	Shut down a server on an EntireX Broker node This API now also supports the reserved password *TRUSTED instead of a user-specific password if EntireX Broker security uses the trusted user ID mechanism. See also Trusted Password allowed in Terminate Command in the section SYSRPC Utility.

SYSRPC Utility

The new features provided with the SYSRPC utility are announced in this section.

For detailed information on these features, refer to the indicated chapters in the Utilities documentation.

Direct Command for Pinging a Server

The new direct command SYSRPC PING provides the option to ping a Natural RPC server in online or batch mode.

For more information, see Using the SYSRPC PING Direct Command.

Direct Command for Server Information from EntireX Broker

The new direct command SYSRPC SRVLIST provides the option to obtain information on all Natural RPC servers registered on the EntireX Broker in online or batch mode. For the kind of information provided and further instructions, see Viewing a Server List.

In addition, you can obtain further information on a single Natural RPC server as shown and explained in Viewing Additional Server Information.

For all information on SYSRPC SRVLIST, see Listing Servers Registered on EntireXBroker.

New Line Commands for Server Command Execution

New line commands are provided on the Server Command Execution screen to ping or terminate an EntireX Broker service or a server and view information on Natural RPC servers registered on EntireX Broker (alternatively, you can use the new SRVLIST direct command).

For more information, see Line Commands: Server Command Execution.

Trusted Password allowed in Terminate Command

If EntireX Broker security uses the trusted user ID mechanism, you can now specify the reserved password *TRUSTED instead of your own password when terminating an EntireX Broker Service with the TS (Terminate EntireX Broker Service) line command of the Server Command Execution function.

TS is described in Terminating an RPC Server.

Service Directory now always Shows Nodes and Servers

When scrolling down in a Service Directory screen, the Node and Server names are now displayed on all pages of the service directory.

Natural Security

The following enhancements are provided with Natural Security Version 8.2.7:

• Logon Records

• Logon Error Records

• Maintenance Log Records

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Logon Records

The Logon Records Menu provides a new selection criterion, FUSER DBID/FNR. It allows you to list only logon records of logons to a specific FUSER system file.

Logon Error Records

The Logon/Countersign Errors Menu provides a new selection criterion, FUSER DBID/FNR. It allows you to list only records of logon errors which occurred in conjunction with logon attempts to a specific FUSER system file.

Maintenance Log Records

The Maintenance Log Records functions List Administrator Services Maintenance Logs and List Security Profile Maintenance Logs provide a new selection criterion, Modifier. It allows you to list only the modifications performed by a specific administrator.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

The new application programming interface NSCONE allows you to display the Natural Server view and Eclipse Navigator view options and actions allowed/disallowed for a specific library and user.

Natural SQL Gateway

New Timeout Parameter and Cleanup Functions for Inactive Sessions

The new SESSION_TIMOUT parameter provides the option to set a time limit for inactive sessions. If set, you can now immediately cancel an inactive session by using either the new Cleanup command button from the HTML Monitor Client or the new –cCleanup command from the NATMOPI Monitor Client.

For more information, see the sections SESSION_TIMOUT, Server Monitor and Direct Commands in the Natural SQL Gateway Server documentation.

Natural zIIP Enabler

zIIP Processing Report at Shutdown

This new feature is available with the Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.4 and Natural Com-plete/SMARTS Interface Version 8.3.5.

When your CICS or Com-plete environment is shut down, a report is now printed containing general zIIP information and component switch statistics. This report is similar to the report produced by the PRINT option of the ZIIP system command (see the System Commands documentation).

For a CICS environment, the required program definitions are described in the section Natural zIIP Shutdown Statistics in Installing Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.4 on z/OS.