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NATURAL is the language associated with SOFTWARE AG's ADABAS database system, for IBM Mainframes (originally) and now available in other flavours.

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NAT3176 Error in call to Adabas subroutine or in inverted list

I am having trouble figuring out how to fix this error in Natural Adabas. I am just starting out with Natural on a very old version and the problem I keep running into trying to run most of the existing programs written by previous developers is…
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How to only print unique case numbers?

I am trying to only print unique case numbers (which are located in the first 5 bytes of each input record). My input file structure is as in this example: 00001 00001 00002 00002 00002 00003 00004 00005 I should be able to read in the case number…
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Is there a way to pass a parameter into a NATURAL subroutine?

I am new to the NATURAL programming language. I am trying to find a way that I can pass one parameter to a subroutine just like in C++ or Java. Right now I have to move everything to another variable and call the method. Thus is cumbersome and is a…
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VS Code Extention for Adabas Natural

I need help or refernece about this. I am working on MF language called Natural it is used in ADABAS MF. The tools we have right now to program are premitve. I like to know if there is somting similar to this language as an extention in VS CODE for…
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Generate xml with cobol mainframe

I need to generate a xml file from a complicated COBOL structure (mainframe). I cant use the XML GENERATE cobol function because the data tree is too big to fit in the W-S (about 8 nested arrays, each with about 75 occurrences of 30 bytes), so there…
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Join statements in a line

I'd like to join a few instructions in a single line in my NATURAL program. Just like this : **before Statement1 Statement2 Statement3 **after Statemen1 statement2 statement3 I know that is quite easy doing in most languages, but…
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How to make a multidimensional array in Natural?

Does the redefine below in the code make #JF-ARRAY a single dimensional array in Natural. I want to make this a 5 dimensional array but I am not certain as if that would be something like. myVariable (A5/7500) or if there is another format that…
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