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PL/I Compilers

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Show value of named constants in Compiler listing, extended.

This is an extended version of delivered RFE 54026 (Show value of named constants in Compiler listing). We, in advance, want also show CHAR and Picture Values, as the are sometimes also not direct viewable in the source.Examples: DCL KO_PI01 PIC'Z...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Advanced RULES(NOUNREF)

For Quality of Source, we would like to have a Compilermessage not only for Unreferenced Automatic Variables, but also for all other unreferenced types.Please always check the usage. IF the rules are true, put a compilermessage out instead to the ...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Enhanced processing of invalid characters in HEXDECODE

The newly introduced HEXDECODE builtin, according to its description, will raise the error condition if the buffer contains any character other than '0123456789ABCDEFabcdef', leaving it to the support staff or programmer to find the offending char...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

built-in function to return jobname, userid, etc

Provide a built-in function / subroutine (PLIZOS ?) returning system dependent information like JOBNAME, MAINPGMNAME, ? - in analogy with FILEDDWORD.
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 10 Delivered

HEX pseudovariable

HEX and/or HEXIMAGE should be available as pseudvariable(s) - by analogy to UNSPEC.
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Date/Times before 1582

All Date/Time routines (BIF) should support Date/Times below 15. October 1582 (day one in Lilian).So, the values (Lilian format) have to support minus numbers (seconds and days).The low limit may be '0001-01-01' as in DB2. PL/I have to support the...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

RULES: (NO)LAXSTMT

(NO)LAXSTMT as a suboption of RULES: There may be maximum 1 statement per source (not PP) line.
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT for preprocessor

It would be nice to have DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT also for variables or procedures generated by the preprocessor
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 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 ->...
5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

support JSONOMIT for structures

Using the attribute JSONOMIT does not work on structures, only on variables. Therefore it is possible that there will be created null-objects if all variables of a structure are empty. To avoid empty objects (null-Objects --> :{}) and related P...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

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