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PL/I Compilers

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Propagate the JSONOMIT attribute from a structure parent to its members

If the JSONOMIT attribute is specified on a structure parent, and all its members are containing a null string or a zero value, then the whole structure should be omitted from output generated by the JSON functions. We need the same behavior as th...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add new JSONIGNORE attribute

The JSONIGNORE attribute would indicate that an element should be ignored by the JSON functions. If theattribute is specified on a structure, all of the elements of the structure would be ignored. Same behavior as XMLIGNORE.
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

JSONPUT suppress empty array occurrences

Reference case TS015700520 Please provide ability to suppress empty occurrences of arrays when using JSONPUT* functions. If any element of the array is present, provide that array occurrence. If all elements of an array are empty, suppress the gen...
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

New BIF: MEMUVALID()

We work more and more with UTF-8. To verify a longer Unicode String to be valid, we are very over the limits of the length of a variable. So we will need a BuiltInFunction like UVALID() but with Pointer and Length like the other MEM-Functions ->...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
3 months 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

Issue new IBM2510I error message also for ROUND(x,0) when x is FIXED BIN(p,0)

IBM2510I error message is issued for CEIL(x), FLOOR(x) and TRUNC(x) when x is FIXED BIN(p,0). Usually this message points to coding errors, often because of incorrect or missing brackets, like here: tmpbf = floor(tmpbf + 2) / 2; So we would like t...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

support JSONOMIT for structures

Using the attribute JSONOMIT does not work on structures, only on variables. Therefore it is possible that there will be created null-objects if all variables of a structure are empty. To avoid empty objects (null-Objects --> :{}) and related P...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release