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PL/I Compilers

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Accept the use of structure = ''; for defined structures

Initialization of DECLARED structures can be done with Structure = ‘’; But for DEFINED structures, one get IBM1678I Assignment of CHARACTER to STRUCTURE TYPE is invalid. This is seen by most of our developers as an impediment to the adoption of de...
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

PLISAXA Performance with big files

We use PLISAXA to parse xmls. With larger files (approx. 4 GB) this takes almost an hour. Our users would like a faster answer here. Maybe there is a way to speed up the parsing. Thanks!
about 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Planned for future release

Add environment variable or equivalent, dummy DD (?), such that a PLIDUMP call can check the existence of the envvar and call Fault Analyzer as part of its processing.

In much earlier versions of Fault Analyzer a zap was provided to the PLIDUMP code such that IDISNAP (Fault Analyzers dynamic call interface) could be invoked as part of a PLIDUMP call, without having to modify the application code. This is no long...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Data Type HEX

Please add data type HEX. DECLARE FIELD_1 HEX(6); Other compilers support this data type natively, for example Assembler. FIELD_1 DS X
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhance GETSYSWORD - USERID

USERID (Batch job submitter's User ID)USERNAME (Batch job submitter's User Name)
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 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

Add support of named constant arrays

Please add support of arrays of named constant, e.g.: dcl titleOrderNumber(*) char value('Auftragsnummer' , 'No de l''ordre' , 'Numero ordine' ,'Order number' ); In cases like in the example above, the length of the longest value has to be taken. ...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhance GETSYSWORD to Support USERID

Please enhance GETSYSWORD to support USERID depending on the current environment: - Under CICS, provide the ID from the user, like getting it from EXEC CICS ASSIGN USERID.- Under IMS MPP, provide the ID from the user, like reading it from the TP P...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Planned for future release

In IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS encrypt and decrypt function/possibilty

Customer wants to store, in an PLI/CICS environment, an SSO Token in an dataspace/storage for Rest calls and they want for security reasons encrypt the stored Token! And afterward decrypt it!
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 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...
about 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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