Adabas & Natural Community Edition with NaturalONE IDE
Learn how to develop modern applications that can run on-prem, in the cloud or hybrid with container platforms. The Adabas & Natural Community Edition lets you gain experience programming with the NaturalONE development environment against Adabas & Natural running on a Docker container.
This Community Edition is for personal use only. Use for commercial production purposes is prohibited.
What’s included
- Getting started guide
- NaturalONE Community Edition
- Natural Community Edition
- Adabas Community Edition
- Adabas Manager Community Edition
What is Adabas & Natural Community Edition
Natural is the programming language used by the world‘s largest companies and governments to create powerful, reliable, fast transaction systems on IBM® z/OS®, Linux and the cloud. With the NaturalONE Eclipse®-based IDE, you can increase developer productivity, accelerate innovation, and participate in DevOps lifecycle and toolchains. The Natural programming language is so easy to learn, developers can be productive in a matter of days.
This community edition of Adabas & Natural lets you try out the NaturalONE development environment against Adabas & Natural running on a Docker container.
Containers are the key to making your applications available via the internet in on-premises, public, private and hybrid environments—allowing you to run your enterprise Adabas & Natural applications virtually anywhere.
The NaturalONE and Adabas & Natural Community Edition is useful for those who want to:
- Gain practical programming experience with Natural
- Get familiar with Adabas and Natural in a Docker container
The Adabas & Natural Community Editions can run on Windows 10/11 and Linux (x86/64 bit) platforms. As a prerequisite, a Docker Container compatible environment must be installed on these operating systems (e.g., Docker Community Edition).
The Docker images are deployed on Docker Hub sowie Software AG public registry.
Need help?
Watch first step tutorials
Listen to our YouTube playlist and learn more about the capabilities of NaturalONE.

Register for free trainings
Access self-paced courses to build foundational knowledge around Adabas & Natural.

Access code samples on GitHub
Use our Natural code samples to get ideas on how to use Natural and contribute your code samples to our code-sharing project.

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