u t n a t u r a l t o o l s u i t e

U T N A T U R A LT o o l S u i t e

Torvald Hessel

Brick Jones

Steve Rung

I n t r o d u c t i o n

• University of Texas at Austin Environment

– Decentralized (Statewide) Environment– 500+ Active Libraries– 200+ programmers– System Steplibs– In House Webscripting Language (WebAgent)– In House Security

A p p l i c a t i o n H i s t o r y

• How to print NATURAL code at home?

• Old school code

• Poor user interface

• Application not updated for 3 years

D e m o →

H o w d o e s i t w o r k ?

Individual Libraries

FUSER File

'Normal'Coding

Environment

'Super' Library

NatprintRecreated Security

R e w r i t e :

• Code up to Standards

• Enhanced Security

• Statistics

• Enhanced user interface & Code Display (more)

U . I . E n h a n c e m e n t s

• Logical User Interface

• Adjustable text size

• Links to objects

• Optional line numbering

• Header information

• Inline Includes

A d d O n s

• Displaying DDE

• Objects listings

D e m o →

X R E F & ‘ A D A R E F ’

• XREF not used

• Mainframe interface difficult to use

• Combine with natprint?

• ADAREF: XREF on ADABAS objects

X R E F• What program is calling your object?

• AJAX interface

• Option to Export to Excel

• User information

• Focused emails instead of ‘spam’

A D A R E F• XREF on ADABAS objects

• Answers to:– Who is accessing my file?– Who is updating my file?– Who is using this Super Descriptor?– What is that program that uses my file?

D e m o →

F u t u r e F u n c t i o n a l i t y

• Rework & Expand Objects listing

• Module migration

• Search/List Datasets

• More?