Software AG provides Natural support for the versions of the operating systems, TP monitors, database management systems and assemblers supported by their respective manufacturers. In general, when the provider of an operating system, TP monitor, database management or assembler system stops supporting a version of an operating system, TP monitor, database management system or assembler, Software AG will stop supporting that version of the operating system, TP monitor, database management system or assembler.
Note:
For information regarding Software AG product compatibility with
IBM platforms and any IBM requirements for Software AG products, please review
the Product
Compatibility for IBM Platforms web page at
http://www.softwareag.com/.
Software AG provides Natural support for the operating systems and versions listed in the Product Version Availability section of Software AG's Empower web site at https://empower.softwareag.com/ (see also Product Availability and End of Maintenance).
Natural Version 9.2.1 supports the versions of the TP monitors/online interfaces listed below:
Product | Version |
---|---|
Com-plete | See Software AG Product Versions Supported by Natural. |
CICS TS for z/OS | 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1 |
IMS TM | 15.2 |
Natural Version 9.2.1 supports the versions of the database management systems listed below:
Product | Version |
---|---|
Adabas | See Software AG Product Versions Supported by Natural. |
Db2 for z/OS | 12.1, 13.1 |
DL/I | As delivered with the TP monitor IMS TM |
VSAM | As delivered with the operating system |
DFSMStvs | As delivered for the respective VSAM version if transactional VSAM is to be used with Natural for VSAM |
Natural Version 9.2 requires "HL" Assembler as delivered with the operating system for the assembly of its source modules.
Note:
It may be possible to assemble source modules with older
assemblers; however, Software AG cannot guarantee this.
All Natural Program Calls (PC) have been validated with the IBM z/OS Authorized Code Scanner (zACS) toolkit. All found vulnerabilities have been fixed, therefore all Natural PCs are vulnerability-free now. For more information about zACS, please refer to the corresponding IBM documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=zos-authorized-code-scanner.
The Authorized Services Manager (module NATASM92
) and
the Natural Roll Server (module NATRSM92
) supplied with Natural
Version 9.2.1 employ machine instructions from the IBM General Instructions
Extension Facility. They will not execute successfully on machines for which
IBM does not supply this extension facility.