Natural v6.1 Features

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Natural v6.1 - Features

• Bruce Beaman
• Director, Enterprise Product Marketing Software
  AG, Inc

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Natural 6.1 for Windows and Unix

• Agenda
• Natural Development Server for Unix
• Natural for Tamino
• Enhanced language
• Change enhancements
• XML toolkit
• Natural Web Interface
• Editors

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Natural 6.1 - New Add On Products

• Natural Development Server for Unix
• SPoD V2 support
• Transparent access to FUSER on Unix
• Predict, Construct Natural Engineer PlugIns
  supported
• Simplified cross platform development
• Natural for Tamino for Windows and Unix
• Transparent access to Tamino

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Single Point of Development (SPoD)Integrating
Software AG Products
Single Point of Development
PredictServer
Development Server PlugIn
Natural ConstructServer
Natural EngineerServer
Natural
Mainframe Navigator Server
Development Server
SPoD Clients
Target Platform
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Single Point of Development

• Why SPoD ?
• Single view to all environments
• Same tools for different platforms
• Uniform graphical user interface
• E.g. CutPaste from one location to another
• Remote Development
• Remote Test
• Remote Debugging

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Single Point of Development

• The legacy environment

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Single Point of Development

• The new environment

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Client Plug-ins

• XRef Evaluation
• Predict
• Program Generation
• Construct
• Schema Generation
• Predict
• Metrics and XRef Viewing
• Natural Engineer
• Object Description
• Predict
• Mainframe Navigation
• Natural ISPF

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Architecture Example SPoD V2
Clients
Predict4.3
Development Server PlugIn
Natural Construct4.5
Natural 3.1.6
Natural EngineerServer
Development Server
Mainframe Navigator Server
Development Server
Entire NET-WORK
Mainframe
Unix
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Application View
Compound Application
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Natural Studio NDV UnixCommunication
Single Point of Development for Unix
Naturalprocess
PAL communication
Listener process
TCP/IP port
2. Socket startup parm
1. Connect
Naturalprocess
3. PAL communication
Clients
Unix
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Single Point of Development

• Product status
• Natural Development Server 2.1.2
• Natural 6.1.1 Windows
• Natural 3.1.6 or 4.1.2 Mainframe
• Predict 4.3.1 ()
• Natural Construct 4.5.1 ()
• Natural ISPF 2.5.1 ()
• Entire System Server 3.2.1 ()
• Natural Engineer 4.4.2 ()
• () required only when Plug-in is used.

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Natural for Tamino
Natural
Tamino
Natural Program
http
httpserver
Natural for Tamino
Natural DML Natural View
Parser
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Natural for Tamino

• DDM generation based on Tamino doctype (XML
  Schema)
• Xquery FLWR expression generated from Natural DML
  
• FLWR For Let Where Return
• FLWR example
• for x in input()/Employee
• let a x/Full-Name/Name
• let b x/Full-Adress/city
• where a gt WOOLSEY
• return ltMyOutputgtablt/MyOutputgt
• W3C standard Xquery does not define updates on
  node level
• Today Natural for Tamino doesnt support updates
  on node level
• However Insert, Delete, Replace is supported.

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Natural for Tamino

• The Idea
• / read employees from Tamino
• define data local
• using INS-EMP2
• end-define
• read ins-empl by name WOOLSEY
• print employee
• end-read
• end
• The Answer

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Natural for Tamino vs - Parse

• Natural for Tamino
• Characteristics
• Access through Naturals powerful, easy-to-use
  DML
• Interaction with business logic through Natural
  data structures
• Value
• No new skills required
• No third-party technology required
• Long-living and easy-to-maintain business logic
  (through database independence)
• Reduced development and maintenance costs

• Naturals Parse statement
• Characteristics
• Decomposes XML document into stream of tag/value
  pairs
• Is an integral part of the language
• Value
• Increased productivity during development
• High flexibility through independence from data
  structure
• Long-living and easy-to-maintain business logic
  (through platform independence)

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Natural 6.1Enhanced Language

• PARSE Statement
• Example
• parse xml xml-data into path xml-path
• name
  xml-name
• value
  xml-value
• display xml-path (al60) xml-name (al15)
  xml-value (AL11)
• end-parse
• Example output

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Natural 6.1Enhanced Language

• Dynamic Arrays
• Arrays of dynamic variables
• Arrays with dynamic number of occurrences
• DEFINE DATA LOCAL
• 01 DYN-ARR (A/110) DYNAMIC
• 01 DYN-GROUP (1)
• 02 NAME (A) DYNAMIC
• 02 AGE (N5)
• END-DEFINE
• Enhanced String processing
• EXAMINE - STARTING ENDING DIRECTION
• Function TRANSLATE Translate string to lower or
  upper case
• Function TRIM Remove leading and / or trailing
  blanks
• Large Constants and Init Values more than 253
  Bytes

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Natural 6.1Change Enhancements

• Printing Treeview and Listview
• Fonts in data and program editor
• MINVAL / MAXVAL as system function
• Modifiable fields with edit masks
• Thousand separator
• Append work file
• FUNCTIONS
• New user interface for Debugger

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Enhanced XML Toolkit

• Use new Natural features
• Parse Statement
• Dynamic arrays
• XML Schema Support
• Encoding of Natural data structures according to
  XML Schema
• Support XML name spaces

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Enhanced XML Toolkit

• Example Parse \SYSEXINS\RES\Employee_ino4x_schema
  .tsd
• PARSE XML XML_INPUT INTO PATH XML_PATH VALUE
  XML_VALUE
• DECIDE ON FIRST XML_PATH
• VALUE 'Employee'
• RESET INITIAL EMPLOYEE
• VALUE 'Employee/_at_Personnel-ID'
• EMPLOYEE.PERSONNEL-ID XML_VALUE
• VALUE 'Employee/Full-Name'
• IGNORE
• ...

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Enhanced Web Interface

• User authentication
• Log In and NSC passwords will be forwarded to
  the Natural server.
• Make use of the latest Natural language features
• Use dynamic variable instead of (A253/1)
• Supports XSL processing
• W3APPLY-XSLT-XML Apply a stylesheet to the
  output page
• W3APPLY-XSLT-XML-TO-DYNAMIC Apply a stylesheet
  to dynamic variable
• Supports html templates
• W3READ-RESOURCE...
• Require EXX611

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Enhanced Web Interface / HTML Template
Windows/Unix
Client

• Natural
• W3READ-ENVIRONMENT
• W3LOAD-RESOURCE
• READ employee...
• W3REPLACE

httpserver
http
CGI/ ISAPI
html
DBMS
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Enhanced Web Interface / XML XSLT
Windows/Unix
Client

• Natural
• W3LOAD-RESOURCE
• READ employee...
• W3REPLACE
• W3APPLY-XSLT

httpserver
http
CGI
html/xml
DBMS
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Natural 6.1 WindowsImproved editors

• Program Editor
• Expand / Collapse of control structures
• Comment with mouse
• Select and move with mouse
• Automatic upshift of Natural keywords
• Ruler
• Include copycode into editor
• Mark changed lines with comment
• Auto save function

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Natural 6.1 WindowsSession Parameters

• Change session parameters online.

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Natural 6.1 WindowsNew debugger user interface
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Forever!