Adabas & Natural - Release information Oct. 2025

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Adabas & Natural

In keeping with our Adabas & Natural 2050+ agenda, we continue to extend our offerings and focus on solutions that help you protect, modernize and optimize your high-performing Adabas & Natural applications.

The Future of Natural Starts Here
We’re taking Natural to the next level with breakthrough innovations introduced through our Co-Innovation Program. Joining the program will allow customers to test and shape the product ahead of its planned release in October 2026.

These are the upcoming solutions that will transform how you develop, integrate, and innovate with Natural:

• Natural for Visual Studio Code - experience Natural in a modern, developer-friendly IDE.

• Natural AI Code Assistant (working title) - accelerate development with AI-driven intelligence.

• Natural Messaging - streamline and simplify communication with IBM MQ systems.

• Natural API Server (working title) - create, manage, and consume REST APIs with support for REST payloads and a built-in REST client for seamless integration.

Contact your local Account Executive and join us in shaping the future of Natural - smarter, faster, and more connected than ever before.

New Learning portal for customers.

Introducing Software AG | Learn — your next-generation learning experience designed to accelerate onboarding and close the skills gap faster. As the mainframe workforce evolves and Adabas and Natural experts retire, generational change has become one of the greatest challenges facing Software AG customers. Software AG | Learn aims to bridge that gap by combining modern, self-paced learning paths with hands-on labs, new certification, and digital badging to empower the next generation of Adabas and Natural professionals.

The new portal is being rolled out in a phased approach, with new functionality and courses added regularly to expand your learning options. This initial launch is just the beginning with much more on the way, modular bite-size learning, role-based onboarding plans, and enhanced learner experiences designed to help you onboard faster, strengthen critical skills, and safeguard your organization’s business continuity for the future.

Visit Software AG | Learn today to explore the platform or CLICK HERE to take a quick guided tour to see what’s new.

1.1 Adabas & Natural for z/OS

Natural for z/OS 9.2.4 includes new features that improve operations and developer productivity.

License Updates and Enhancements

We’re introducing important updates to Natural licensing on z/OS to simplify compliance and improve system management:

• New Licensing Requirement for Natural Security on z/OS:
  A new license is now required for Natural Security for z/OS.

• Improved z/OS Experience:
  For Natural on z/OS, a new parameter allows you to suppress License Warning messages, reducing administrative overhead and supporting compliance. Warnings are still written to logs.

Moreover, the Adabas utilities Adabas Fastpath v8.6.1 and Adabas System Coordinator v8.6.1 introduced a runtime license key check.

These updates ensure that your Adabas & Natural environment aligns with licensing policies while keeping development agile and straightforward.

In the Adabas for z/OS family of products there a lot of minor changes and releases:

• Some Java-based products now support Java 21
• AFP, AVI and COR got aligned with the Adabas v8.6.1 version number
• AFP and COR implemented runtime license key checks to align with the rest of Adabas & Natural
• Adabas Auditing v2.3.2 has got significant improvements
  • Adabas Audit Viewer became much more usable
  • Adabas Audit Viewer can create a report as print or export file
  • The Auditing itself now supports a range of changes in the system files of Adabas as well as Natural
  • Security metadata can be promoted to IBM Guardium DataProtect
• Adabas Manager 9.4 can now administer Event Replicator Target Adapters

Release Highlights

Adabas & Natural for IBM z/OS Release Highlights
Naturalfor z/OS	NAT 9.2.4	Avoid XREF Data in Private Mode Library New! Label for “END-“ statements New! GIVING ERROR in PARSE XML New! System Variable *UUID New! Edit Mask in WRITE WORK FILE
Predict	PRD 8.6.1	Re-release version
Natural for Db2	NDB 9.2.4	Maintenance release
Natural Development Server	NDV 9.2.4	Maintenance release
Natural Batch for Db2 for zIIP	NDZBT 9.2.4	Performance elapsed improvements
Adabas Fastpath	AFP 8.6.1	Auditing support for optimized Adabas commands Version number aligned with ADA v. 8.6.1. Alignment of License Key runtime check
Adabas Vista	AVI 8.6.1	Version number aligned with ADA v.8.6.1
Adabas System Coordinator	COR 8.6.1	Version number aligned with ADA v.8.6.1 Alignment of License Key runtime check
Event Replicator Target Adapter Mapping Tool	AMT 4.0.0	Support of Java 21With the next release of Adabas Manager, the AMT functionality will be available with the Adabas Manager.
Adabas Analytics Collector MF	EAP 4.0.0	Support the auditing of FNAT, FSEC and COR files for Adabas Auditing for z/OS
Adabas Directory Server for Java	ADJ 6.0.0	Support of Java 21
Extended Transport Service for Java	XTJ 6.2.0	Support of Java 21
Adabas Manager	AMN 9.4	Event Replicator Target Adapters can now be administered from within the Adabas Manager All functions previously available in the standalone Target Adapter Administration tool (AMR) are supported, e.g. definitions for source, target and processing options.
Adabas Auditing for z/OS	ALA 2.3.2	Change alerts can be fired on changes to parameters or security settings. Specific handling for Natural system files has been implemented (FNAT, FUSER, FSEC, FDIC). Specific handling of system files from Adabas Fastpath, Adabas Vista and System Coordinator is available. Audit Viewer has been enhanced to export or print reports. Audit Viewer underwent a usability analysis and has been improved accordingly IBM Guardium Data Protect is supported as a target for security metadata

1.2 Adabas & Natural for Linux and Cloud

Natural for Linux 9.3.3 and its product family, in alignment with Natural for z/OS, provides new features and new statements as shown in the table below.

New Natural Container Images in Software AG Registry
With this release, 5 new Natural container images are now available in the Software AG Registry, providing customers with more flexibility and choice for deployment:

• Natural with Natural Development Server (NDV)

• Natural with Natural Web I/O (NWO)

• Natural with NDV and Natural Security (NSC)

• Natural with NWO and Natural Security (NSC)

• Natural Availability Server (NHA)

Customer Impact

• Enables faster setup by providing ready-to-use images with commonly used components.

• Reduces the need for manual installation and configuration, streamlining deployments.

• Supports a variety of development, testing, and production scenarios by offering pre-packaged combinations of NDV, NWO, and NSC.

Find the latest container images at https://containers.softwareag.com/

The Adabas on Linux & Cloud ecosystem continues to focus on security and high availability.

Adabas on Linux & Cloud and the utilities have been enhanced with minor changes, that increase usability and everyday operational ease, like

• Show file update time in ADAREP
• Print database statistics on shutdown
• Allow Audit trail timestamp to be in UTC or local time, just to name a few.

RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) has been enhanced for the utilities ADADBM and ADAOPR. Both utilities can now be protected on the more fine-grained control parameter level. This allows to distinguish rights for “read” and “change/write”.

Adabas Encryption for Linux supports the HashiCorp Vault.
The intra-cluster communication (aka data-in-flight) between the nodes of Adabas Cluster for Linux can now be TLS/SSL secured.

Adabas Cluster for Linux improved with a new connection string to allow clients to be re-routed to read-only secondary nodes for load-balancing purposes.

Adabas Manager supports the enabling and disabling of ADATCP while Adabas is running with a simple button click.

Adabas & Natural for Linux and Cloud Release Highlights

Natural for Linux and Cloud	NAT 9.3.3	New! Natural is delivered with ready container images Natural community edition and Bring Your Own License support NDV supporting impersonation Avoid XREF Data in Private Mode Library New! Label for “END-“statements New! GIVING ERROR in PARSE XML New! System Variable *UUID New! Edit Mask in WRITE WORK FILE Remove Natural number limit for Adabas Support READ ISN with FROM and TO clauses
Natural Development Server	NDV 9.3.3	Impersonation allows NDV to remotely use user id instead of process owner id.
Natural Availability Server	NHA 9.3.3	Delivered with ready container image Improvements in Client UI. File transfer interface Copy screen data from rectangle Auto tab ahead when field is full z/OS Connectivity support (with HA limitations)
Natural Security	NSC 9.3.3	Maintenance release
Predict	PRD 8.6.1	Re-release version
Adabas for Linux	ADA 7.4	File update time can be registered and shown in the ADAREP Comprehensive database statistics can be printed out on database shutdown For audit trail you can now define the timestamp to be either in UTC or in local time Also for audit trail, a maximum file size can be defined for when to switch to a subsequent audit file The field ISN is also written to audit trail now ADAOPR supports enabling / disabling of ADATCP while running ADAOPR can enforce a new audit log (FEOF) RBAC (Role-Based-Access-Control): ADADBM and ADAOPR can now be protected on control parameter level. ADARBA is enhanced to allow for this ADAREC now supports BACKOUT ADAREP can now write FDTs into sequential files. These may be used as input for other utilities, e.g., ADAFDU. New utility: ADASEL (PLOG Selection) – selects information from PLOGs or WORK containers based on SQL-like selection criteria. The output can be written in different formats, e.g., JSON. ADAVFY prepends a time stamp to each output file UNBUFFERED=CLEAR and UNBUFFERED=NOPLOG are now options of Adabas Encryption for Linux and Adabas Cluster for Linux. The Adabas REST administration server supports a whole set of new functions
Adabas Encryption for Linux	AEL 7.4	The Key Management System of HashiCorp (HashiCorp Vault) is now supported by Adabas Encryption.
Adabas Cluster for Linux	ADC 7.4	Intra-cluster communication, i.e., between the cluster nodes, can now be TLS/SSL secured. The Adabas client (ACL) supports a new connection string options to control whether clients will be connected with a secondary node for read-only purposes or not.
Adabas Manager	AMN 9.4	Enable or disable ADATCP on a running Adabas database by just a button click. Ease your monitoring with the new User Queue (UQ) list monitoring dashboard

1.3 NaturalONE and Natural for Ajax

The default development environment supports the statement enhancements on Natural for z/OS and Natural for Linux and Cloud.

NaturalONE Token-Based Authentication Support

NaturalONE will now be released with token-based authentication. This enhancement follows the successful introduction of token-based authentication in Natural for Ajax and Natural Availability Server in our last releases, extending modern, secure, and streamlined access across our portfolio.

• Token-Based Authentication:
  NaturalONE supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for token-based authentication, enabling more secure and modern access management.
• Linux-Only Availability:
  This new authentication method applies to Natural for Linux environments.
• Seamless Integration:
  The OIDC support allows integration with existing identity providers, simplifying user access and strengthening compliance with corporate security policies.

These enhancements make NaturalONE and Natural for Ajax more secure, modern, and aligned with industry best practices for authentication.

Simplify NaturalONE and Natural Development Server license check

To make deployment and usage easier on z/OS and Linux, we have simplified the license handling for NaturalONE and Natural Development Server (NDV). Customers no longer need to manage or obtain a separate license for these products — the license is automatically validated on the Natural server with your Natural license.

Please note: this change does not apply to Natural for Windows, which continues to require its own licensing.

NaturalONE and Natural for Ajax Release Highlights

NaturalONE	ONE 9.3.3	New! Token-based authentication using OpenID Connect Self-contained plugin and Bring your own Eclipse Support Natural Construct code generation from LDA Additional commenting options on Natural objects Alerts when drap&drop overwrites object Import data from DDM with or without field type / length Statement parsing support GIVING ERROR in Parse XML Edit Mask in WRITE WORKFILE New “END-“ labels Subroutine name followed by END-SUBROUTINE F3 (GOTO) now support DDM Profiler and Code Coverage improvements, see release notes.Import data with or without field types
Natural for Ajax	NJX 9.3.3	Support latest version of Bootstrap New responsive controls: Accordion Grid Sidebars

2 ESM

Transform Your Data Center with the Entire System Management products

Automate your data center operations and reduce administrative overhead. ESM streamlines workflows, boosts efficiency, and helps you cut operational costs.

Entire Output Management
Ensure the right information reaches the right people, automatically. Entire Output Management simplifies the creation, distribution, and administration of enterprise documents, reducing errors and saving time.

Entire Operations
Keep your business-critical processes running smoothly. Entire Operations provides automated monitoring and control of all IT-supported workflows, giving you real-time insights and proactive alerts.

Entire System Server
The backbone of your IT environment. Entire System Server offers secure, reliable access to your operating system and seamless integration with the Entire Suite, supporting consistent and efficient operations.

Entire Systems Management

Entire Operations	NOP/OGC 5.5.3	Re-Release version Make ‘SYSOUT Line Limit’ Owner Dependent
Entire Output Management	NOM/NGC 3.5.3	Re-Release version Check content of an archive file against NOM data for Revive, Condense Improve XREF of Users on users list
Entire System Server (z/OS)	NPR 3.8.1	Maintenance release
Entire System Server (Linux)	NPR 2.1.18	Maintenance release

3 CONNX

CONNX database adapters deliver seamless, real-time access to 150+ data sources. Our data virtualization and replication capabilities ensure fast access to high-value data, anywhere it’s needed. With CONNX, you can enable secure self-service access from desktop tools, power real-time dashboard reporting, or replicate data to on-premise or cloud-based analytics platforms and data lakes. With CONNX’s direct database integration, you can be up and running within hours of connecting your source and target systems.

In version 14.9, CONNX will expand its capabilities by introducing support for data streaming through integration with Apache Kafka.

CONNX Release Highlights

CONNX	CXA 14.9	Apache Kafka support: CONNX for Kafka supporting: Adabas Event Replicator for Linux & Windows CONNX DataSync CONNX for Kafka authentication methods support: None (no authentication) SASL/Plain SASL/SCRAM SHA-256/512 Web Admin support for CONNX for Kafka Removal of N-Tier and user restrictions Improve support for PostgreSQL with enhanced adapter Enable “wrap-around” trace files for JDBC Server
Adabas Event Replicator for Linux & Windows	ARN 14.9	Support for Adabas Cluster for Linux
CONNX DataSync	CXD 14.9	Remove the need for a separate license key for CONNX Transformation