The Seminars in this listing can be selected in any combination to create a custom seminar for your site, containing only those topics which are of interest to you and your staff. Workshops and exercises are incorporated throughout the seminars.

Please keep in mind that the minimum seminar is one day.

Natural Seminars

Accessing and Managing Information
Accessing and Displaying Information
Logical Conditions
Interacting With Information
Creating Systems in NATURAL
Creating Interactive Systems
NATURAL Coding Techniques
Creating HELP Systems in NATURAL
Standard Application Functions
Performance and Debugging
NATURAL Facilities
NATURAL & Batch
NATURAL Case Study

Accessing and Managing Information
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how ADABAS manages information and how to access ADABAS easily and efficiently using NATURAL, and to present the information retrieved.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	NATURAL Syntax ADABAS Access ADABAS Architecture Data Storage, Update and Retrieval READ - PHYSICAL BY ISN Logical Logical DESCENDING Available System Variables Internal Workings FIND - WITH SORTED BY NUMBER Available System Variables Internal Workings HISTOGRAM Available System Variables Internal Workings GET Internal Workings DEFINE DATA DISPLAY Descriptors - Types and usage Multiple File Access Creating Record Sets RETAIN AS Managing Processing Loops Database Processing Loops REPEAT FOR ESCAPE - TOP BOTTOM ROUTINE (IMMEDIATE) STOP TERMINATE

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Accessing and Displaying Information
Purpose:	To give the participant an extended understanding of how to format and display information from the database.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	NATURAL System Variables DISPLAY WRITE PRINT WRITE USING FORM SKIP NEWPAGE EJECT FORMAT Program Level Statement Level Field Level AT TOP OF AT END OF PAGE Break Processing NATURAL System Functions BEFORE BREAK PROCESSING AT BREAK IF BREAK PERFORM BREAK PROCESSING SORT AT START OF DATA AT END OF DATA

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Logical Conditions
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how NATURAL is used to interrogate and to set up decision processes inside NATURAL programs.
Duration:	1/2 day
Contents:	IF - THEN / ELSE IS SELECTION NOT UNIQUE SCAN MASK DECIDE ON DECIDE FOR NEWPAGE EXAMINE Control Variables Logicals Date, Time Formats Complex Conditions

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Interacting With Information
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to alter information locally and on the database, and to create interactive interfaces.
Duration:	1/2 day
Contents:	Doing Math ADD SUBTRACT DIVIDE MULTIPLY COMPUTE Assigning Values RESET ASSIGN MOVE MOVE ALL INPUT INPUT USING MAP SET KEY SET CONTROL Control Variables Managing Arrays User Defined Arrays Database Arrays Multi-dimensional Array Arrays on a MAP Evaluating Values EXAMINE COMPRESS SEPERATE Changing Values on the Database STORE UPDATE DELETE END TRANSACTION BACKOUT TRANSACTION

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Creating Systems in NATURAL
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to use all the programming objects in NATURAL and put them together in a coherent system, including strategies for modularization. The participant will end the day with a working system.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	Data Areas Global Parameter Local Programs FETCH Subprograms CALLNAT Maps INPUT REINPUT SET KEY SET CONTROL Processing Rules Automatic Free Rules Inline Rules Subroutines DEFINE SUBROUTINE Copycode INCLUDE Helproutines and Help Maps HELP MAPs Help Routines "HE=" Parameter INPUT USING HELP Using the Stack STACK STACK TOP COMMAND STACK TOP DATA RELEASE

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Creating Interactive Systems
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how user friendly interactive systems are planned and created, as well as techniques for creating them. The participant should end the seminar with a working interactive system.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	What is a "friendly" interface? What is the user used to? Designing "friendly" Interfaces Defining "standard" screens MAP Profiles Layout MAPs DEFINE WINDOW Managing PF-Keys SET KEY SET CONTROL Standard key definitions COPYCODE SUBROUTINEs SUBPROGRAMs Menu Structure More than one type of Menu Code Selection Menu PF-Key Menu Pull Down Menu Cursor Sensitive Menu Navigating through menus

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NATURAL Coding Techniques
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to create more complex structures using NATURAL.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	How Complex Processes are Coded Paging and Scrolling Using Arrays of Information Using Records and Files "Windowing" Your Application DEFINE WINDOW Statement When to use it Syntax Using SET CONTROL Invoking Windows What is "Zooming" Techniques for "Zooming" "Zooming" Through Multiple Levels Using "Zooming" to Edit Extending Array Input Handling Errors When "Zooming" Making NATURAL "GUI" Adding Cursor Sensitivity to Applications System Variables Addressing Editing Record Maintenance Help "Pull Down" or GUI like Menus Cursor Sensitive Windowing

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Creating HELP Systems in NATURAL
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to create more complex Help structures which allow more user control and entry of help, as well as using help to document systems.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	IF - THEN / ELSE IS SELECTION NOT UNIQUE SCAN MASK DECIDE ON DECIDE FOR NEWPAGE EXAMINE Control Variables Logicals Date, Time Formats Complex Conditions

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Standard Application Functions
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to plan and create "global" modules and systems to handle application wide functions.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	What are Standard Application Functions? Managing Edits Standard Edit Modules Using "One" Update Module Processing Rules Help Systems System Level Help Program Level Help Field Level Help Creating a System to Manage Help Text Error Handling ON ERROR *ERROR-TA Logging Errors Capturing Errors Maintenance Requests

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Standard Application Functions
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to plan and create "global" modules and systems to handle application wide functions.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	What are Standard Application Functions? Managing Edits Standard Edit Modules Using "One" Update Module Processing Rules Help Systems System Level Help Program Level Help Field Level Help Creating a System to Manage Help Text Error Handling ON ERROR *ERROR-TA Logging Errors Capturing Errors Maintenance Requests

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Performance and Debugging
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to asses and enhance the performance of a given NATURAL program, and to locate and correct problems.
Duration:	1 day
Contents:	How to determine Performance Batch vs. Online IO vs. CPU Techniques Prefetch/Multifetch NATURAL Buffers What are they and what do they do? BUS SYSTECH SYSPROD DBLOG ADABAS Internals - How it works Defining Efficiency Using Logging to determine efficiency ADABAS Calls Debugging NATURAL Programs Quick Techniques DEBUG Using the DEBUG Facility Testing NATURAL Programs Techniquess UPDATE ON/OFF ET/ BT

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NATURAL Facilities
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how to access and use various NATURAL Facilities.
Duration:	1/2 day
Contents:	NATRJE What NATRJE does Using NATRJE at Your Site SYSMAIN LIST Using LIST LIST Features STRUCT Use of STRUCT STRUCT EXPAND XREF What XREF Creates System Requirements Using XREF Information Using XREF Sets TECH SYSPROD SYSPROF NATURAL Recordings What Recordings provide Syntax Techniques for Usage Capturing Test Information Capturing Errors

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NATURAL and Batch
Purpose:	To give the participant an understanding of how code and test in a "batch" environment
Duration:	1/2 day
Contents:	What is Batch NATURAL NATURAL and JCL Work Files Print Files Passing Parameters NATRJE READ WORK FILE WRITE WORK FILE WRITE DISPLAY WRITE USING FORM SORT Restarting Techniques When to Restart Restart Options ET Data GET ET DATA

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NATURAL Case Study
Purpose:	To provide a setting for the participant to use all the skills learned in the seminar setting to create a "live" system. There are several case studies available, depending on experience and the seminars chosen.
Duration:	Varies
Contents:	A user "dialog" describing the system to be created and what the business needs are. The participant will use this to design then construct a NATURAL application to satisfy the requirements. This will be reviewed at the end of the day. The result should be a working system which can be used as a reference or starting place for the participant in future activities.

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