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PL/I Compilers

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Loop shadow variables

In many fields it's common to process daily/weekly/monthly/yearly data and compare said data with data of the previous period.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Multiple "FROM" references in WRITE statement

Many reporting programs contains sets of WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head1);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head2);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head3);WRITE FILE(whatever) FROM(head4); to write out heading lines. It would be nice if the WRITE statement for t...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

REPOSITION Option on the READ Statement

Add the ability to reposition the current record pointer within a sequential dataset. Go back to the beginning of a dataset without closing it and re-opening it: READ FILE (MYFILE) INTO (MYLAYOUT) REPOSITION(1) Additionally, be able to reposition ...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

EMAIL Built-in Function

Sending SMTP email natively from a PL/I program would be handy. CALL EMAIL(FROM,TO,SUBJECT,BODY,BODY_FORMAT,ATTACHMENT(S)); BODY_FORMAT=HTML, RTF, TEXT. Perhaps for the body argument, be flexible and allow quoted text, a variable name or a DD name...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

DOCX Built-in Function for Creating .docx Output

We'd like the ability to generate a true .docx document from a PL/I program. We currently generate documents from a PL/I program that we subsequently transmit to users via email (using SMTP from a clist), however the document is not a true .docx d...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

SENTENCECASE and TITLECASE

The PL/I compiler has built-in functions for LOWER and UPPER case conversions, but having SENTENCE and TITLE case built-in functions would be very helpful. They should also have a provision to preclude a portion of the string that is being convert...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Support the SMF OCYYDDD+ pattern in all Date/Time built-in functions

Can you enhance all the date/time built-in functions to support the OCYYDDD+ SMF date-time pattern? This was requested previously in ID 61274, but it was delivered via built-in functions JULIANTOSMF and SMFTOJULIAN, not natively through the Table ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Exponentiation of 10 are incorrect

Our customer is in trouble that the exponentiation of 10 are incorrect.? ?Example? 10**-3 = 0.0009 instead of 0.0010 The simple exponentiation such as '10 ** n' wants to be right value. For example, before calculation, check whether base is 10 or ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

display IBM1789i on declaration

The code below leads to an "IBM1789I The qualifyer foox does not have locator type" for line 90. Imho it would be much clearer if the compile error is thrown for line 20. line 20 is a programmer typo and shall be "...based(addr(foo))"; 10 dcl foo ...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Allow for data structures and aggregates in macro variables

Currently only single variables and arrays can be declared in macros. %DCL MYVAR CHAR; The ability to define data structures and aggregates in macros would really make complex macros clearer and easier to maintain. %DCL 01 STRUC1(10), 05 F1 CHAR, ...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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