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WH&O International began as an affiliation of consulting and training professionals in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Each of our affiliates [originally Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Brazil and New Zealand] have contributed to the overall product base providing the best in consulting services and ADABAS, Natural and Construct education worldwide.

Our Publications Division grew out of these alliances in 1989, formed to supplement the original vendor's reference materials. These publications represent in-depth work with each product by a recognized authority in the field.

All WH&O publications are in a popular format in soft cover, actually, 8" by 10" perfect bound. Each volume is registered with the Library of Congress and assigned an ISBN number for reference and ease in ordering. The content of each is taken from the latest release of the software.

WH&O International also offers training and consulting company from our headquarters in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.

ADABAS, Natural, Construct and PREDICT are trademarks of Software AG of Darmstadt, Germany.
Natural Publications
 Natural Study Guide
Natural Editors
Natural Developers Handbook
Advanced Natural Study Guide
ADABAS Publications
 Inside ADABAS
PREDICT Publications
 Introduction to PREDICT
 Natural Construct Publications
 Natural Construct Study Guide
Natural Construct Application Development User Guide
Natural Construct Tips & Techniques (unrevised)



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Natural Study Guide
The Natural Study Guide is well-written, well-designed and well-thought-out and is the best guide for anyone just starting out with Natural. At their own pace, each student will create and modify over 70 programs illustrating commands, statement usage and programming techniques. Questions and coding problems at the end of each chapter further test and reinforce the student's understanding of each topic. The explanations cover what you want without dragging in too much detail. Highly recommended for beginners at all levels; a perfect refresher course for others. Natural 4.2. 404 pages.

Topics: Introduction to Natural; Statement Syntax; Data Definition Modules; Development Facilities Environment; Natural Commands and Statements; Natural Libraries; Editor Work Areas; Data Definition; Using the Program Editor; Accessing the Data Base; Basic Report Writing; Basic Mapping; Conditional Statements and Loop Processing; Array Processing; Natural Math Basics; Modifying the Data Base; Building Natural Applications; Batch Processing; Extensions on Reporting; Additional Topics; Appendix; Index.
 ISBN 1-878960-00-8

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Natural Developers Handbook
An absolute must for newcomers to Natural and a very helpful book for experienced programmers and developers too. The Natural Developers Handbook has all the need-to-know information in Natural to design, develop and implement both prototype and production applications. Terrific undercover work on Map Editor and Windowing and Arrays. Report generation is handled with the same importance as on-line design techniques. Emphasis is on Structured Mode.

Our Natural Developers Handbook is arranged alphabetically with more than just program statements included. Other important topics like arrays, helproutines, help text, windows, debugging and recording are just as easily as FIND, SEPARATE, EXAMINE TRANSLATE and REINPUT or any other statement. With Structured Mode examples everywhere. Version 4.2

WH&O's Natural Developers Handbook: all the information you can find in the Natural Reference Manual; all the information you can find in the Natural Programmers Guide; and all the tips they forgot to tell you. 750+ pages.

Topics: Natural Programming Statements including: Action Bar Processing; Arrays; Arithmetic-Assignment Rules; Control Variables; Edit Masks; Logical Condition Criteria; How FIND Works; Loops; Pull Down Windows; How READ Works; Windows; Appendices: Natural System Commands; Natural Terminal Commands; Natural Session Parameters; Natural Data Types; Natural System Variables; NATURAL System Functions; Natural Utilities: LIST Utility; Command Processor; PROCESS COMMAND Statement; Debugging Facility; DBLOG Utility; Batch Processing; Index.

ISBN 1-878960-01-6

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Natural Editors
The Natural Editors details the ins and outs of each of Natural's three editors with plenty of examples: Program Editor, Data Area Editor and the Map Editor with a section on Processing Rules. Campanion to the Natural Developers Handbook. Works with Natural V. 4.2 270+ pages.

Topics: Program Editor, Line Commands, Field Commands, PROFILEs. Data Area Editor, Line and Field Commands, Extended Commands. Map Editor: Map Settings, Help, Windows, Arrays and variations on Arrays, Processing Rule implementation. Index.

 ISBN 1-878960-28-8

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Advanced Natural Study Guide
The "on-line" version of the ever popular Natural Study Guide. The Advanced Natural Study Guide takes up where the original study guide ended. Reviews Common User Access principles. Extensive work with the Map Editor: Mapping Basics, Arrays, Processing Rules, Layouts, Forms, Profiles, and more. Additional emphasis is placed on providing on-line help and the implementation of various help facilities to include working with pop-up windows and scrolling windows and variations on selection techniques. GUI is addressed from the perspective of pull down windows using multiple features of Natural. Works with Natural 4.2 270+ pages.

Topics: Common User Access; Introduction to the Map Editor; Building Templates; Arrays; Processing Rules; Help; Extended Help; DEFINE WINDOW; Graphical User Interface; Natural Debugging Utility; Command Processor; Index.

 ISBN 1-878960-20-2

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Inside ADABAS
An Introduction to ADABAS Concepts and Facilities
For the applications programmer or designer, this book offers valuable and clear information concerning those aspects of ADABAS important to applications development. Inside ADABAS is a "Concepts and Facilities" course in that it not only explains the various components of ADABAS but how they interact with one another. Whether you are working on a small prototype, a file design or a large database, this manual is an excellent resource.

This is not an internals manual. Inside ADABAS is simply designed to introduce programmers, analysts and designers to the functions and facilities of ADABAS with practical exercises emphasizing the various strength of ADABAS.

A glossary is included that explains many of the terms and acronyms used in the text. There is a self-test included at the conclusion of the ADABAS section. 238 pages.

Topics: The Adaptable Data Base System; An ADABAS Session; Data Storage; The ADABAS Associator; ADABAS Descriptors; The ADABAS Nucleus; ADABAS Commands; Data Modification Commands; ADAM Files, ADABAS Calls, Utilities & Security; The Data Dictionary; The Study Guide Quiz; Glossary; Index.
Introduction to Direct Calls.

 ISBN 1-878960-03-2

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Introduction to PREDICT
WH&O's Introduction to PREDICT tells you what you need to know about PREDICT when you have to put up a file and maintain its fields and attributes and document your changes. By continually building the discussion in a step-by-step approach, you'll learn many of the functions of PREDICT and how they interact with one another; Version 4.4.x. 347+ pages.

Topics: Introduction to PREDICT; Maintaining File Definitions; Maintaining Users & Owners; Maintaining Your User Profile; Maintaining Elementary Fields; Maintaining Keywords; Maintaining Databases; Maintaining Verification Rules; Creating ADABAS Files; Documenting Natural Programs; Active Retrieval; List XREF; Retrieval Subsystem; File Implementation; Implementation Maintenance; Direct Commands; Appendix; Extending PREDICT; SYSDICBE and Migration; Workfiles; Changes; Generating COBOL Copy Code; Index.

 ISBN 1-878960-04-0

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Natural Construct Study Guide
The Natural Construct Study Guide is best guide for anyone just starting out with Natural Construct. At their own pace, each student will create and modify several basic models illustrating specification panel usage, user exit editor and programming techniques. Just like the Natural Study Guide, the explanations cover what you need without dragging in too much detail. Great for beginners at all levels; a perfect refresher course for others. Works with Natural Construct 4.5.x.

Topics: Construct Environment; What is Construct; Construct Objects; START, QUIT and MENU Models; User Exits: Statement models; Browse Model; Maint Model (generic and using Natural Maps); BROWSE-SELECT Model: BROWSE-SUBP and DRIVER Models; BROWSE Windows; Index. 175+ pages.

 ISBN 1-878960-23-7

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Natural Construct Application Development User's Guide
Natural Construct is THE development tool you can customize. What can you do with Natural Construct? The simple answer is that you can create and modify robust applications with blinding speed. By enhancing the programming models you can tailor these systems to your environment. After a brief introduction, this Natural Construct Users Guide walks the reader through all the steps in developing their own customized applications. Version 4.5.x.

Topics: CommonTopics: What is Natural Construct? Natural Construct Standards; PREDICT; Getting Started: Invoking Natural Construct, Generation Main Menu; STARTUP & QUIT Models; MENU Model; MAP Model; MAINTenance Model; BROWSE Model; BROWSE-SELECT Model; BATCH Model; Overview of OBJECT Models; Extendable-INPUT; DRIVER Model; SHELL Model; .G Statement Models; Natural Construct Help System; Model Subsystem; Index. 580+ pages.

 ISBN 1-878960-11-3

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Natural Construct Tips & Techniques
Natural Construct Tips & Techniques was written under Natural Construct Version 3. Even though this was conceived under an earlier version, most of the topics are still relevant to the current release since the approach is from a logical perspective. Take a hint from the chapter titles: Construct Administration and Support, Natural and Natural Security Administration, Predict Administration, Defining a New Model, Customizing the Delivered Models, Project Management and Design, Programming Tips & Techniques, General Tips & Techniques, Object-Oriented Theory and Implementation with Construct. The remaining chapters are model specific giving the reader indepth background for working with the BROWSE Model, EXTENDABLE-INPUT, MENU Model, OBJECT-MAINT-DIALOG and -SUBP, OBJECT-SUBP Model and finally, working with Statement Models.

 ISBN 1-878960-22-9

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Natural Basic Reference Set: Natural Developers Handbook and Natural Editors
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Natural Programmers Series: Natural Developers Handbook and Natural Study Guide
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Natural Training Series: Natural Study Guide and Advanced Natural Study Guide
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Natural Developers Series: Natural Developers Handbook, Natural Study Guide, and Advanced Natural Study Guide
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Natural Construct Developers Series: Natural Construct Study Guide and Natural Construct Application Development Users Guide
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