NATURAL and ESY (Entire System Server)

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Any experiences with that? I saw the product in 2000 and this is the first time that I see again.
The shop has the latest version on MVS,TSO, ESY, Complete and Natural, therefore I imagine that we could do things that you nromally can not under other installations.

Unfortunetelly, nobody knows ANYTHING about the product (what it is and that even is installed), not even the DBAs…

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Here is a link to the documentation
http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/npr342mfr/ug/ug_intro.htm#ug_intro

Basically it is “The Software AG product Entire System Server is a self-contained software package that provides operating system services in a Natural environment.”

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I would describe it as

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It is merely the greatest idea since sliced bread.

As others have stated above, it allows you to do things like


FIND SPOOL-QUEUE WITH JOB-NAME = 'PAY*'
  processing
  FIND SPOOL-FILES WITH JOB-NAME = SPOOL-QUEUE.JOB-NAME
    AND JOB-NUMBER = SPOOL-QUEUE.JOB-NUMBER
      processing on SPOOL-FILES.RECORD
  END-FIND
END-FIND

It is also the non-NATURAL base of NATURAL ISPF.

I’ve always wondered why it never sold better than it has :o :frowning: . In fact, I wish the concept was available outside the NATURAL world. (I have ideas :idea:, e-mail me off-line if interested.)

Disclaimer: I used to be one of the developers, so I do have a slight bias.

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[quote]
I did a presentation on it at a SAG conference in the mid 1990

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Curtis, there are slide scanners you can hook into your computer.