Natural Version 8.2.8 Release Notes for Mainframes

This document provides a brief summary of the changes and enhancements that have been introduced in Natural Version 8.2.8 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.

Supported Environments	Operating Systems TP Monitors/Online Interfaces Database Management Systems Assemblers IBM z/OS Authorized Code Scanner (zACS)
Available and Supported Software AG Product Versions	Product Availability and End of Maintenance Overview of New Natural Add-On Product Versions Software AG Product Versions Supported by Natural
Installation and Compatibility	Changes to Installation License File Compatibility
New and Changed Features of Base Natural	Operations and Performance Unicode and Code Page Support System Commands Terminal Commands Editors Utilities Profile Parameters Application Programming Interfaces
New and Changed Features of Natural Add-On Products	Natural Development Server Natural for DB2 Natural for DB2 for zIIP Natural ISPF NaturalONE Natural RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Natural for zIIP
New and Changed Features of Most Recent Natural Add-On Products	Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5 Natural Com-plete/SMARTS Interface Version 8.3.6 Natural IMS TM Interface Version 8.3.5 Natural Optimizer Compiler Version 8.4.1
Dropped Features	Features Dropped with this Natural Version Features Dropped with a Future Natural Version
Previous Release Notes	Past Release Notes of Natural