This document covers the following topics:
Software AG Designer 10.7, which includes NaturalONE, uses Eclipse Version 4.15. If you prefer to use NaturalONE in your existing Eclipse environment, see also Using Your Own Eclipse in the Installation documentation.
The selection of components during the installation has changed. For more information, see Installing NaturalONE in the Installation documentation.
After installing NaturalONE and applying all relevant fixes, you are now able to create a compressed package of NaturalONE for deployment on additional development stations. For more information, see Preparing a Deployment Package in the Installation documentation
This section describes new features and enhancements in NaturalONE's basic functionality for Natural application development. It covers the following topics:
The preference Display DDMs in library is no longer available. Displaying DDMs in the Natural server view has been enhanced in the following way:
For Natural Development (NDV) servers which are protected with Natural Security, all DDMs which are accessible to the current user in a specific library are shown in a DDMs group node of this library, regardless of whether the DDMs are public or protected. The DDMs system file node is no longer available in this case.
If the NDV server is not protected with Natural Security, the DDMs
will either be displayed below the DDMs system file (Mainframe server or
servers with FDDM) or in the DDMs group node
of the libraries (for UNIX, OpenVMS or Windows environments without
FDDM).
This new behavior is also described under Working with DDMs in section Managing Objects Directly on a Natural Server.
When a huge number of objects are contained in a library, the listing of these objects in the Natural Server view can take a long time. Natural for Mainframes Version 9.1.2 on z/OS provides a new hyperdescriptor that can significantly improve the database access required for this purpose. The installation of the hyperdescriptor is described in Performance Aspects in NaturalONE in a Nutshell.
The ECHECK parameter is now supported in
NaturalONE when parsing sources in the Natural source editor. When adding
projects from an NDV server environment, the ECHECK
parameter is also downloaded to the Natural project properties. This
enhancement does currently not apply to NDV mainframe servers.
This section describes new features and enhancements concerning Natural tools and utilities available in NaturalONE. It covers the following topics:
The debugger has been enhanced to show the complete value of a large or dynamic variable of the type A, U or B. See Display Options in Setting the Preferences and Variables View in Debugging Natural Applications for further information.
In order to provide the variable chunk support for large and dynamic variables, a Natural server change is necessary. This means that the functionality is only available with the most current versions of the Natural Development (NDV) servers on Linux, Unix and Windows that correspond to NaturalONE Version 9.1.3.
A new drop-down list box which is shown at the top of the Hot Spots page allows switching between different built-in display layouts. See Viewing the Profiler Output > Hot Spots in Using the Natural Profiler for further information.
The default layout that is initially used can be set in the Natural preferences. See Profiler > Hot Spots in Setting the Preferences for further information.
The data browser now supports Adabas protected files. See Creating a Report Template in Using the Data Browser for further details.
In addition, to use the maximum number of occurrences for periodic groups and multiple fields in Adabas files, a new preference has been introduced. For details see Displaying the Properties for a Field in Using the Data Browser and Data Browser in Setting the Preferences for further details.
This section describes new features and enhancements in the NaturalONE deployment area. It covers the following topics:
A new functionality has been added to Predict which allows you to deploy from a batch file. For more information, check Managing Predict Components > Steps required in your Natural Project(s).
It is now possible to execute a Natural unit test bed with an Ant script outside the context of a NaturalONE/Eclipse environment. This is especially important for providing full DevOps support if you also want to execute test cases unattended in a lean command line environment. This extension will also simplify the integration of Natural unit test processing with continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
The functionality of writing Natural unit test cases is already covered by NaturalONE. However, this has now been extended with a new Natural unit test Ant Script wizard, which can be used to generate Ant based testing scripts. These scripts support several targets like checkout for checking out a test project or unittest for executing a Natural unit test bed.
For testing purposes, you can now also execute a testing Ant script inside NaturalONE via the Eclipse built in Run As Ant Script functionality. The results of a test run will be displayed in the Console view.
Refer to Creating Ant Scripts to Run Unit Tests in the Application Testing documentation for further details.
This section describes new features and enhancements in Natural for Ajax and Ajax Developer. It covers the following topics:
Support for Natural-specific Properties like njx:natname in Responsive Controls
New Responsive Containers: BMOBILE:SIDEBAR*, BMOBILE:HORIZONTALBAR, BMOBILE:CONTENT
FIELD Control: New Value in Property formautocomplete Supported
FIELD Control With New properties onclickmethod and ondblclickmethod
Responsive and non-responsive NatLogon and NatDisconnect pages are now supported. In NaturalONE you can create your own custom NatLogon and NatDisconnect pages using the New layout wizard.
Bootstrap 4 is now supported for responsive controls. Bootstrap 4
is the default. If you still need to use Bootstrap 3, you can use the attribute
uselatestbootstrap in
cisconfig.xml to run all pages with Bootstrap 3 or use the
property uselatestbootstrap in the NATPAGE control
to run a single page with Bootstrap 3
See Ajax Configuration for details.
Most responsive controls now support Natural-specific properties
like njx:natname in the same way as non responsive
controls.
The PAGEBODY tag is now obsolete for responsive
controls. The templates for responsive pages do not contain the
PAGEBODY tag anymore. Responsive pages with PAGEBODY
tags are still supported but contain obsolete HTML code.
The Layout Painter supports a new page template for development of responsive pages with sidebars. See also Responsive Page Layout and Controls for further details.
A more flexible and lightweight
BMOBILE:FORM
container is now supported. The
BMOBILE-FORMGROUP
containers now supports horizontal and vertical forms. For the usage in bar
controls - like the BMOBILE:HORIZONTALBAR
and the BMOBILE:SIDEBAR
- a BMOBILE:FORMINLINE
container is supported. A
BMOBILE:FTEXTOUT
control has been added to support plain read-only text in forms.
The BMOBILE:COL
container now supports a visibleprop property.
Most responsive
containers
and controls
now support a testtoolid property.
The new responsive containers
BMOBILE:SIDEBAR*,
BMOBILE:HORIZONTALBAR
and BMOBILE:CONTENT
support frequently used patterns for modern responsive pages.
Additional controls like
BMOBILE:TOGGLER,
BMOBILE:SIDEBARGROUP,
BMOBILE:BARTEXT
support corresponding functionality for flexible rendering.
Responsive input controls like
BMOBILE:FFIELD
now support a helpid property in the same way as
non-responsive controls.
Bootstrap 4 tooltip support is now used to render tooltips. The
rendering can be customized via CSS style classes. All form controls now also
support setting the tooltip text dynamically from within Natural. Use the
property titleprop in the corresponding
controls.
The file cisconfig.xml now supports the new
settings pagepopuponresize,
pagepopuphorizontal and
pagepopupvertical. Use these settings to fit a
page pop-up to its parent.
See Ajax Configuration for details.
The formautocomplete property of the
FIELD and
BMOBILE:FFIELD
controls now supports the value new-password. In
the current versions of Chrome, this can be used to prevent Chrome from
autofilling form fields.
Natural programs can now react to click and/or double click
events. Refer to the description of the
FIELD
control properties for details.
Use the new
RPIECHART
property animateselection if you want to render
the selected slice with a bigger radius (= move out effect).
A new BMOBILE:HELPMODAL dialog shows help texts for
specified help IDs. All responsive modal dialogs -
BMOBILE:MODAL,
BMOBILE:INTMODAL,
BMOBILE:HELPMODAL
- are now draggable and resizable.
For BMOBILE:MODAL, the page URL can now be specified
dynamically at runtime.
New features are available with the following optional components. For detailed information on the new features, see the Release Notes in the documentation of the corresponding optional component.
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The NaturalONE in a Nutshell documentation has been enhanced. A new section Performance Aspects has been added, providing information on what actions and best practices can improve the performance.
If you are working with the SVN Repository Exploring Perspective
or Views, it might happen that a dialog with a
NullPointerException pops up. This problem has been observed
especially, if you switch from the SVN perspective to the NaturalONE
perspective.
This is a known Subclipse problem which is described in the following Subclipse issue: https://github.com/subclipse/subclipse/issues/126.
Even if it is annoying, you can ignore this exception.