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PL/I Compilers

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PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG to fully support OPT(2) or OPT(3)

When the PL/I compiler is performing optimization, it has the ability to move statements in the resulting executable. When this happens, the backwards traceability to the actual written source statement is lost. The information is avaiable in the ...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Flag SQL Statements not followed by a test of SQLCODE

The SQL coprocessor should flag any EXEC SQL Statement which is not followed by a test for return information in variable SQLCODE.
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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

IBM z/OS Debugger 64bit Support

・Decrease E-private usage when taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs When we take code coverage, E-private usage for the address space used by z/OS Debugger increases depending on the number of running program.Therefore w...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

New builtin to replace ''

Initializing large structures, especially in procedures that are called many times, using '' is something that should rightly be frowned upon, and wherever possible, such initialisations should be done only once, saving the initialised structure i...
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

LOOKUP builtin function

Lookups are usually done via do i=1 to n while(^match) ordo i = 1 to n until(match) loops. This type of processing is not efficient even (see the "Use Case" below) if subsequent matches match on a next item in a table. What is proposed is a new bu...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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