Enhancements of Natural Add-on Products for Special Natural Version 9.1.1 Features

This section describes changes and enhancements provided by Natural add-on products to support special features of Natural Version 9.1.1.


Natural CICS Interface

Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5 is available on z/OS platforms, from Natural Version 8.2.8 onwards.

This section describes the new features and changes of Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5.

Discontinued Support for Swap Pool

Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5 is available on z/OS platforms, from Natural Version 8.2.8 onwards.

This section describes the changes of Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5.

From Natural CICS Interface Version 8.3.5 onwards, the Natural swap pool is no longer supported on z/OS when running in the CICS OTE environment (threadsafe). The roll server must be used instead. The new error message NS56 indicates the error situation (see the Messages and Codes documentation).

New Terminal Command for Calling Quasi-Reentrant Subprograms

On z/OS, the new %P=SQ terminal command can be used in a Natural CICS running in the CICS OTE environment (threadsafe) to call quasi-reentrant user programs.

For this purpose, the supplied assembler program NCILINKQ must be installed in CICS as quasi-reentrant. See the relevant installation instructions described in Installing Natural CICS Interface on z/OS in the Installation documentation.

Enhanced NTCICSP Macro Functionality

The maximum value for the tolerance value of the STORVIO parameter has been increased from 255 to 16777215. See also STORVIO in the Parameter Reference documentation for further details.

Natural SAF Security

The enhancement provided with Natural SAF Security Version 8.2.7 is described in the following section.

Please refer to Overview of Natural Add-On Product Versions for the Zap solution required for this version.

SAF Error Recording

The NSF Options of Administrator Services provide a new option SAF error recording: Logon errors caused by an invalid user ID or invalid password specification are always logged by the external security system. This new option determines whether they are also logged by Natural Security, which means that corresponding Natural Security logon error records will be written.