# Release Announcement January 2021 - Adabas & Natural

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/release-announcement-january-2021-adabas-natural/238220>\
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**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/release-announcement-january-2021-adabas-natural/238220 "2021-02-01T12:15:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/release-announcement-january-2021-adabas-natural/238220/1 "2021-02-01T12:15:05Z")

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Innovations keep coming for [Adabas & Natural](http://www.adabasnatural.com) on our key platform IBM Z. 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.

## Adabas & Natural on IBM Z

Highlights in this release of Adabas & Natural on IBM Z include security feature with Multi-Factor-Authentication (MFA) with one-time password authentication support integrated into NaturalONE for Natural Development Server (NDV).  
You can now offload even more workload to zIIP with roll server support for Natural for Com-plete for zIIP.

## Release Highlights

### Adabas & Natural on IBM Z Release Highlights

| **Natural Mainframe\*** | &nbsp; | NAT 8.2.8/9.12 | &nbsp; | 
- Natural Development Server (NDV)
- MFA (Multi-factor authentication) support
- One-time password authentication support
- Support of long password (RPC/ONE)

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| **Predict** | &nbsp; | PRD   
8.5.1 | &nbsp; | 
- Support new feature in DB2/V12
- Predict Plug-In in ONE: DevOps - Support Adabas DB assets for continuous integration/deployment

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| **Natural for zIIP** | &nbsp; | NCF  
 8.3.6 | &nbsp; | 
- Natural for Com-plete for zIIP supports new roll server

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| **Natural for DB2** | &nbsp; | NDB  
 8.4.3 | &nbsp; | 
- Support shared memory objects above the bar, no size limit in 64bit.

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\*In this release, Natural for Mainframe includes features for BS2000 and z/VSE platforms.

View product release notes at [Software AG Product Documentation](https://documentation.softwareag.com/)