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Natural Studio
Customization and Navigation
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This
presentation helps the mainframe developer transition from a
character-based Natural environment to the Graphical User Interface of
Natural Studio. It will be of special interest to those
implementing SPoD. It will familiarize you with Natural Studio's
icons, toolbars, pull-down menus, and context menus.
Recommendations are made for Natural Studio configuration and
customization, improving Natural Studio's usefulness and Developer
productivity.
This is an excerpt from a 2-day seminar, Introduction to Natural/Adabas for Windows.
The presentation is a large pps file, containing many screen images (5,549k), also available in zip format (4,868k). |
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Natural Platform Incompatibilities
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This
presentation discusses incompatibilities between Natural on the
mainframe and OpenSystems platforms, such as system variables,
field/map appearance, collating sequences, internal storage, syntax
differences, and PF key sensitivity. In most cases, these issues
can be resolved with minor source code changes. (180k).
The
objective is to deomonstrate how to write programs which will run on
either platform without modification. |
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Introduction to Natural Dialogs
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This
presentation will introduce the features of the Dialog Editor in
Natural 6. Simple dialogs will be created to demonstrate input
fields, edit areas, push buttons, frames, list boxes, message boxes,
and event handlers.
This is an excerpt from a 2-day seminar, Introduction to Natural/Adabas for Windows.
This is a large pps file,
containing many screen images (5,278k), also available in zip format (4,491k). Source code
for a sample dialog is available as a zipped Object Handler file (12k). |
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Natural 6 TnT
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Natural
6 has a plethora of features designed to improve Developer
productivity, especially in the SPoD environment, but who has the time
to read the volumes of documentation
and help text to find them? This presentation will uncover tips
and techniques to help you work more efficiently in Natural Studio.
(213k)
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Batch Topics
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This
presentation from the Training Track offers something for both the
novice and experienced Natural developer. It focuses on topics
and techniques related to efficient batch processing of Natural and
Adabas in a mainframe environment, such as
- Printing:
report distribution, controlling carriage control, MAINPR, testing
implications
- WORK
files: RECORD clause, temporary storage, empty files, continuing vs
restarting a READ WORK loop
- Sorting:
internal vs external, sort vs AT BREAK
- Restart/recovery:
methods, restart vs re-run, ET data
- JCL:
Natural parameters, abend processing in-stream data (CMSYNIN vs CMOBJIN)
This
presentation is comprised of excerpts from a 1-day seminar, Batch
Processing with Natural and Adabas. (241k)
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