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Starting Point

Before you start with setting up the Natural interface, you need to ensure that the TSO interface into Natural is working. That is, you can get into Natural from a TSO session and perform all the tasks that Natural provides. You can edit a Natural object, compile it and execute an application. ISPW uses the TSO interface to perform its work.

The TSO ISPW Natural interface does not log on to Natural. If log on is enabled, you must disable it for ISPW Natural users. Additionally, you may need to specify a default Natural library in the user profile. For details, refer to the sections on Logging On and Automatic Logon in the Natural for Mainframe 8.2.7 manual.

ISPW provides Codelines, a feature that enables developers to work in their own Sandboxes. However, you cannot use Codelines with the Natural interface. Also, this implementation does not integrate with Git.

ISPW Natural users must have the ability to browse, update, and compile objects in Natural and ADABAS. This includes the user ID that runs sets – the SX user ID.

Managing your Natural application

You have an existing Natural application you want managed by ISPW; at a high level, you need to perform the following steps:

  • Define the application to ISPW.
  • Define a ADABAS database for each ISPW life cycle level.
  • Load the Natural objects into the ISPW life cycle datasets. Use the Application Load utility to define the Natural objects in the ISPW repository.
  • Update the supplied sample ISPW exits and associated REXX code. These exits perform the ISPW actions, such as edit and promote, on the Natural objects.

The subsequent topics walk you through performing the above steps and provide additional information on using Natural objects within ISPW.

Warning

Important

Once you start using ISPW to manage your Natural objects, all edits on those objects should be performed within ISPW. If changes are made to the objects using the native Natural editor, those updates will not be reflected in the ISPW life cycle datasets.

This interface was developed and tested on ISPW 18.02, using Natural for Mainframes 8.2.7 and ADABAS 8.3.4. All components were running on z/OS.

 

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