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PL/I Compilers

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New EPLI INDEX-like builtin

For ad-hoc lookups it is possible to store data, padded with suitable non-occuring fillers in a VAR CHAR variable. Checking if the data is present can subsequently be done using INDEX(haystack, needle) / POS(needle, haystack) However, both of the ...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

A builtin function REPLACE is requested

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* REPLACE is to replace the first occurrence of string FIND_STR /* within UPDATED_STRING with string REPL_STR. /* Start searching for FIND_STR at STARTPOS. If anything was re...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 - VARLENGTH data-type for implementation size of VAR CHAR leading length field

We would ask for a new data-type VARLENGTH (or something similar) which has the same size as the actual implementation size of a VAR CHAR leading length field (which is 2-bytes at the moment).
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 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...
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

PLI Compiler support for x86 Linux platforms

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development is an Eclipse based product that bundles the PLI importer functionality provided by RAD. We have a customer whose workstations are running Linux on the x86 architecture. They are unable to use our impo...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures and also resolve %INCLUDEs, %XINCLUDEs, and macro invocations within ANSWER strings. Example: ? SYSLIB member QSUB: %DCL QSUB ENTRY; %QSUB: PROC; ANSWER('/* QSUB */'); %END QSUB...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Ext File Handler in PLI for AIX

The PLI compiler for AIX should have an interface to an external file handler which acts like and looks like the external file handling capability in the PLI for Windows compiler.
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Mac OS support

Request for support of the PL/I Compiler on Mac OS.
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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