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    VALIDDATE shall support more date/time/timestamp patterns

    validdate(to_be_tested, <pattern>) shall support a broader range of date/time patterns. in an ideal world any combination of yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mi, ss, 9999 with any kind of separators (,-;:_.+/\?`^?) are supported. as a minimum the commonly ...
    over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Builtin to determine level of recursive calls

    When using recursive procedures, it would occasionally be useful to know if the procedure currently active is called directly, or recursively, and in the latter case, provided such information is available in control blocks, at what level of recur...
    over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    Additional compound operators for reverse operations

    Enterprise PL/I at some stage introduced the originating from C compound operators, i.e. +=-=*=/= and quite justifiably added **=||= All of them, lets generically use the term ?=, in essence "expand" x ?= y ; into x = x ? y; It might in some circu...
    over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Reduce compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line

    Enterprise PL/I V5.2 issues too many compiler messages with the same ID and text for a line. Please see the attached file. It is an example code of issuing same messages for a line performing arithmetic operations of FIXED DEC using structure name...
    almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

    Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
    almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

    Inline/internal %INCLUDE

    When the same structure is used multiple times in a program, it's easy to declare it once in full and reuse it in other structures declared with LIKE. When used this way, any change to the "base" structure" will automagically be applied to all its...
    over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

    Add a Built-in Function to Invoke the SVC99 Service to the PL/I Compiler

    Access to the SVC99 service from PL/I is lacking and must currently be done via a call to an intermediate assembler program. Can a built-in function to access the SVC99 service be added to the compiler?
    almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Enhanced(?) "NOELSEIF" compiler RULES() option

    One of the sub-options of the compiler RULES() options keyword is (NO)ELSEIF, to flag long deeply nested IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN... statements, for potential replacement by SELECT-WHEN-WHEN-OTHER statements.
    about 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

    Flag usage of character //

    Last version of Enterprise PL/I compiler got an enhancement: The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. A compileoption, which flags the usage of character // would be helpful. See case TS003850293. https://www.ibm.com/mysupp...
    over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    New builtins SELECTVALUE and SELECTWHEN

    based on builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) we want to have two new builtins for select-functionality:SELECTVALUE(expr, value1, result1, value2, result2, ... , otherresult)SELECTWHEN(whenexpr1, result1, whenexpr2, result2, ... , otherre...
    over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

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