Natural Version 8.2.7 Release Notes for Mainframes

This document provides a brief summary of the changes and enhancements that have been introduced in Natural Version 8.2.7 for Mainframes and the Natural add-on products released with this version. Revised and updated documentation sets are available with this version.

The release notes for all currently supported versions of Natural for Mainframes are provided in Previous Release Notes.

Update Information, December 2017:

Binding the TIMESHIFT Library in the section BS2000 C/C++ Time Overflow has been modified.
The section Terminal Commands has been added.
The section New Terminal Command for Calling Quasi-Reentrant Subprograms has been added for Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.4.

Supported Environments	Operating Systems TP Monitors/Online Interfaces Database Management Systems Authorized Services Manager and Roll Server Assemblers
Available and Required Software AG Product Versions	Product Availability and End of Maintenance Overview of New Natural Add-On Product Versions Software AG Product Versions Required with Natural
Installation and Compatibility	Changes to Installation License File Compatibility
New and Changed Features of Base Natural	Customer Feature Requests for Base Natural Operations and Performance Unicode and Code Page Support Programming Language System Commands Terminal Commands Utilities Application Programming Interfaces
New and Changed Features of Natural Add-On Products	NaturalONE Natural Optimizer Compiler Natural RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Natural Security Natural SQL Gateway Natural zIIP Enabler
New and Changed Features of Most Recent Natural Add-On Products	Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.4 Natural Com-plete/SMARTS Interface Version 8.3.5 Natural Development Server Version 8.3.4 Natural for DB2 Version 8.4.2 Natural Optimizer Compiler Version 8.3.5 Natural Web I/O Interface Server Version 8.3.4
Previous Release Notes	Past Release Notes of Natural