This document contains frequently asked questions regarding Natural Single Point of Development.
For creating and operating a Natural remote development environment, or for using additional SPoD functionality, the products as described under http://documentation.softwareag.com/natural/spod_prereq/prereq.htm (Empower login required) are required.
Yes, Natural objects of previous versions can be used in a SPoD environment without migration.
No, although the SPoD approach requires a development server file which
is a central Natural system file structured like the FDIC file.
This does not mean that Predict is a prerequisite for remote development,
although Predict supports the SPoD application concept. Predict is needed to
use the XRef functionality, the object description and/or the schema generation
functionality.
Predict Case (PCA) has not been integrated into the SPoD concept. With Natural Studio, it can be invoked like any other mainframe Natural application via the terminal emulation feature of the remote development environment. However, Predict Case objects will not appear in the remote development tree view.
The earlier Natural application shell was used with the frame gallery for developing, administering, and monitoring application solutions. Together, they provided an infrastructure in which numerous standards were defined and were implemented in the form of reuseable components, such as dialogs and procedures.
The application concept introduced with Natural Single Point of Development is intended to address the structure of customer solutions so as to get a new logical view on the solution which is not limited by the boundaries of the Natural libraries.