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PL/I Compilers

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JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enhance the sum() builtin function and add two siblings

The SUM builtin function is a very useful feature of PL/I. However, unlike many other builtin functions it does not accept structures as argument.
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhance readability/usability of Attribute/Xref Table

The Attribute/Xref Table is a "grey" mass. It contains all data, but is hard to read due to the high density of the data.
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

JSONPUT generate special value null

Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

make JSON-builtin non UTF-8 compatible

Whenever we use the jsonGet* oder jsonPut* function we always have to convert it from or to EBCDIC(1148) to UTF-8(1208) as we store and send this structure in Db2 Tables and on MQ and we don't want to convert it at two different places.Therefore i...
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

new suppress prefix

The compiler has a lot of useful informations and warnings.Some of this couldn't be eliminated at time - therefore the message list get longer and longer - the risk to overlook a new message increase.As developer I want to accept a message for a s...
about 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

XMLCHAR Builtin function to support DBCS

Enhance XMLCHAR PL/I built-in function, to support the DBCS characters. Today it supports only Single byte Alphanumeric, numeric, decimals and String values.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Automatic rename of '*' fields when compiling with TEST() option

From the Enterprise PL/I Programming Guide: Any variable declared with an * for its name will not be visible when using DebugTool. Additionally, if an * is used as the name of a parent structure or substructure, then all of its children will also ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Add support of assigning all values to a defined structure at once

We would like to be able to assign all values to a defined structure at once. So we would like to get the use of the VALUE function enhanced in assignments like shown below.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Add support of UTC plus an additional local time date patterns

We would like to have the following three UTC plus an addition local time date pattern supported by the DATETIME and REPATTERN built-in functions: 1) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999S99:99'2) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999Z'3) 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999 UTC' 4) '...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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