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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...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

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.
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

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...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Japanese CodePage IBM-1390/1399 support

For IDz V15 and earlier, we can use the Japanese code page IBM-1390/1399 with code conversion for text data when accessing resources on z/OS such as MVS datasets and Unix file systems from IDz client. But for IDz 16, we can not set IBM-1390/1399 f...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Delivered

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...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Request For Enhancement

Hi Developer,Modify the HSISUDEL job/program to add an option that would allow us to retain Usage Log records when HSISUDEL is run.
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Delivered

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...
4 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

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 ->...
4 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Provide a Java 8 compiled JZOS jar via Maven central

Recently, a Java 11 compiled version of the JZOS jar has been added to maven central allowing build tools such as Maven and Gradle to add it as a dependency with less friction for projects and developers. Since this jar has been compiled with Java...
5 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Delivered