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JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

JSONPUT generate special value null

Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Check/Reject when a variable A based on a pointer initialized with the addr of a variable B is bigger than B

- a PLI V5.2 program runs smoothly but abends with S0C4 when recompiled in PLI V6.1- on analysis, the program has a poor writing, it uses a larger redefined area than the original area. This original area is used as I/O area. Presently, the compil...
4 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add environment variable or equivalent, dummy DD (?), such that a PLIDUMP call can check the existence of the envvar and call Fault Analyzer as part of its processing.

In much earlier versions of Fault Analyzer a zap was provided to the PLIDUMP code such that IDISNAP (Fault Analyzers dynamic call interface) could be invoked as part of a PLIDUMP call, without having to modify the application code. This is no long...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Hash Tables

It should support the following basic operations: - Create - Insert - Delete - Search
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Tree data structures

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … There are many types of tree data structures. At first, basic binary trees should be supp...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Stacks and Queues

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following basic operations (for Stacks): - Push - Pop - Peek - Leng...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for linked-list (singly, doubly, circular, doubly-circular)

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … It should support the following types: - Singly linked lists. - Doubly linked lists. - Ci...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Accept the use of structure = ''; for defined structures

Initialization of DECLARED structures can be done with Structure = ‘’; But for DEFINED structures, one get IBM1678I Assignment of CHARACTER to STRUCTURE TYPE is invalid. This is seen by most of our developers as an impediment to the adoption of de...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release