Natural version 4 for mainframes. (Database and Network News & Products).A new version 4 of Natural for mainframes, Software AG's 4GL development platform for large-scale electronic-business applications, is now available. It accelerates database access to Adabas and DB2, improves application performance and allows the direct processing of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. documents. Also Natural applications for BS2000/OSD from Fujitsu Siemens (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Inc. (USA), Milpitas, CA, www.fujitsu-siemens.com) Fujitsu Siemens Computers USA is a wholly owned research and development subsidiary of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. can now be developed using Natural on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. . Required databases can be accessed from a Natural application through one uniform data manipulation language A language that requests data from a DBMS. It is coded within the application program such as COBOL or C. (language, database) Data Manipulation Language - (DML, or Data Management Language) A language for the manipulation of data in a database by applications and/or . Natural Version 4 for mainframes accelerates access to Adabas by allowing dynamic changes in read directions and dynamic re-positioning within read loops, and by capitalising on Adabas's read-ahead (multi-fetch) capability. Runtime performance is enhanced through Natural's improved object~code-handling techniques, redesigned execution algorithms, widened access paths, increased buffer sizes, use of 64-Bit technology (z/OS..only) and a new version of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC (Remote Procedure Call) A programming interface that allows one program to use the services of another program in a remote machine. The calling program sends a message and data to the remote program, which is executed, and results are passed back to the calling ) server. XML documents can be created, processed and made available, and because complete highly nested XML documents can be very large, Natural's data-definition and data-manipulation capabilities have been extended with large (up to one gigabyte) and dynamic variables. Comment: When IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) introduced Linux for its S1390 and zSeries 900 mainframes, packaged applications, tools, infrastructure and skill sets already in use with open systems became available for the mainframe. In order to capitalise on the platform -specific capabilities and strengths of IBM's multi-operating system mainframe platform, Natural Version 4 for OS/390 or z/OS can be extended with the current version 5 or the forthcoming version 6 of Natural for Linux on the same machine. In a two-tier architecture of this nature, the stability and performance of Natural for OS/390 or z/OS complements the enhanced browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used support, Web access and Tamino XML Server query capabilities of Natural for Linux. www.softwareag.co.uk |
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