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Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
about 3 hours ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Planned for future release
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Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 13 Under review

Allow specification of constants in the VALUE clause of the DEFINE ORDINAL statement

The compiler is currently flagging the following code /* HTTP status codes */ DCL 01 HTTP_STATUS_CODE ,05 OK BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(200) ,05 CREATED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(201) ,05 ACCEPTED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(202) ,05 NO_CONTENT BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(203...
22 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

support for EzNoSQL in PL/I in same level as in COBOL

because if you want to use EzNoSQL in a mainly PL/I shop
5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the PL/I jsonGetValue built-in function to add a selector option to jsonGetValue which would allow specifying a condition for selecting an array element. The function would then only copy those elements that satisfy the condition.

For example, given the JSON document below, it would be great to specify we only want the item with "TRAINING": "Y" copied over to the PL/I structure. JSON_DOCUMENT: { "PASSES": 3, "DATA": [ { "NAME": "Mather", "ELEVATION": 12100, "TRAINING": "Y" ...
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 5 Planned for future release

Add JSONIGNORE attribute similar to XMLIGNORE

The JSONIGNORE attribute would indicate that an element should be ignored by the JSON functions. If the attribute is specified on a substructure, all of the elements of the structure will be ignored. We also need the JSONOMIT attribute to be exten...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Possibility to define a property group by default

Hi, It would be useful to have the option to define a property group by default for all imported z/OS projects. Today our developers must select each project and associate it with the property group that we want. An action that can be easily autom...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration