NAT-PAD -- Change Management for NATURAL and PREDICT -- located on the mainframe.
Controlling the migration of NATURAL objects between environments presents numerous challenges. Tracking the current location of a program, avoiding program overwrites, verifying that program changes are made, changing all related objects, archiving and recovery, maintaining complete audit trails. Manual change management can be time-consuming, which tends to lead to errors.
Provides Administration and Documentation
Maintains audit trails
Provides data security
Controls access
AUTOMATIC Archiving
Features
- Copies NATURAL source
- From development into transition library
- From transition into other development or production libraries
- Catalogs the sources in other development or production libraries
- Archives the former version before moving new objects into production
- Browses in archive and copies source into development
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- Browses in production and copies source into development
- Supoorts several search functions
- Copies error messages from test into production and vice versa
- Copies PREDICT objects from test into production and vice versa
- Performs validation checks of all functions against NATURAL Security
or equivalent facilities
- Connects to MVS job entry systems (JESx)
- Uses Entire System Server (if available)
- Uses NATURAL user exits eliminating problems with new release changes
Applications
- NATURAL Change Management
- NATURAL Program Administration and Documentation
- NATURAL Application Control
Advantages
- Fully documented and tested
- Reasonable costs
- Designed by one of the leading experts in the SAG arena
- Protects the investment in organizations' applications
- Automatic cataloging of minimizes production problems
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- Batch or online
- A well proven solution
- Audit trails and reports
- Flexible
System Requirements
NAT-PAD operates under OS/390, MVS, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, z/OS, DOS/VSE, VM/CMS, and BS2000. NATURAL Security and PREDICT are optional.
Documentation Version 3.3.e
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