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    redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

    When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
    almost 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 4 Not under consideration

    Provide CLANG scan-build tool on AIX for Open XL C 17.1+

    Provide the scan-build tool to front-end CLANG static analysis. This would greatly aide in migrating codebases from older versions of XL C to the new compilers. All compiler users on AIX would benefit.
    about 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 2 Not under consideration

    JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

    We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
    about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

    WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

    Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
    about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

    Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

    Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
    about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

    request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

    When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
    over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

    Ship as PDSE for performance

    With C header files in PDSes they cannot be cached in Z/OS and every compile needs to fetch from disk. If these were in PDSEs they they can be cached and avoid the I/O. See https://colinpaice.blog/2020/11/23/avoiding-i-o-by-caching-your-pdses-it-m...
    over 3 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Add support to EDCDSECT for generating Doxygen-compatible comments

    We have a product that has many data areas in common between C/C++ code and Assembler code. We generate the C/C++ header files from the Assembler DSECTs using the EDCDSECT utility provided by z/OS XL C/C++. We generate documentation for the C/C++ ...
    over 9 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 21 Planned for future release

    EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

    This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

    Support for generating AMODE 31 with xlclang++

    CICS does not support 64 bit LE programs. xlclang++ cannot be used for CICS development.
    over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Future consideration

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