How to export all mapped environments from Natural Studio (SPoD)

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A colleague of mine wanted to export all the mapped environments from Natural Studio (SPoD). As we have quite a lot of different environments due to our complex staging concept, manually re-creating this list would be cumbersome.

Map an environment in Natural Studio

Long story short: we didn’t find a way to export the environments from within Natural Studio. However, after a quick search I found this file: %PROGRAMDATA%\Software AG\Natural\6.3\Prof\%USERNAME%.PRU (which translates to C:\ProgramData\Software AG\Natural\6.3\Prof\MACKE.PRU in my case). It contains all the mapped environments in a text format:

Mapping2 = MAP THEHOST 2720 ALIAS=My environment; MACKE * * fuser=(22,123) ;CONNECTED=FALSE

Here’s a quick regular expression to filter the needed parts from the string:

MAP (.+) ([0-9]+) ALIAS=([^;]+); ([^ ]+) \* \* ([^;]*);.*
  • Group 1: Host name (THEHOST)
  • Group 2: Server port (2720)
  • Group 3: Environment name (My environment)
  • Group 4: User ID (MACKE)
  • Group 5: Session parameter (fuser=(22,123))

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