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PL/I Compilers

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Modify jsonGetValue built in function to tolerate unknown and reordered name/values and objects in JSON text

RFE to modify the jsonGetValue built in function to tolerate unknown and reordered name/values and objects in JSON text. The compiler currently enforces strict rules on jsonGetValue requiring all names in the text to be defined in the structure an...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 8 Delivered

Add new attributes to the TITLE option

The TITLE option of the OPEN statement supports only a subset of the attributes offered by BPXWDYN.We need support for the following extra attributes: CLOSE (free dataset on close)RELEASE (release unused space on close)RECORG(LS) (create a VSAM LS...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Enable Enterprise PL/I programs which are compiled as NORENT (and linked into a NORENT/NONDLL program object/load module) to be able to fetch/call program objects which are linked as RENT/DLL, such as PL/I AMODE(64), JAVA, and other modern APIs.

Use case: Enterprise PL/I has the following requirements/restrictions documented in Chapter 1 of the Programming Guide (GI13-5620-00) regarding the RENT compiler option: “RENT (compiler option) If you link a module (either MAIN or FETCHABLE) conta...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Lift or remove limits of INLIST built-in function

The INLIST built-in function is limited to 63 values (64 arguments), please either lift that up to at least 127 values (128 arguments) or remove the limitation. That background is, that based on the new MAXRUNONIF compiler option of version 6.1, w...
10 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Add new PLIPARSE built-in function to parse an input string

Please add a new PLIPARSE built-in function to PL/I V5.3 to split an input string into various fields based on given delimiters: The first argument is the input string to be parsed. The arguments after that input string consist of - an even number...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Add new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999

Please enhance V5.3 to support a new date/time pattern YYYYMMDDHHMISS999999 as the “internal” format of the existing patterns YYYY-MM-DD-HH.MI.SS.999999YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.999999YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS.999999 everywhere in DATETIME, REPATTERN, MINDATE...
over 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

NOLAXNESTED behavior modification

The NOLAXNESTED compiler option should just prevent code in a proc and nested procs to be intermixed.The rule should be that the code in a proc forms a single 'block'. Case 1 : All nested procs AFTER the code => Acceptable a: proc; dcl (x,y,z) ...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Clean Code: Flag (more) unreferenced declarations.

Unused Named Constants, some BASED variables and maybe more declarations are not flagged in the Compilerlisting as UNREFERENCED. It is not relevant to the performance or other things at run-time, but to have a clean code (more maintainable), it wo...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance SUPRESS attribute with LAXENTRY

Please add LAXENTRY to the SUPRESS attribute for procedures and entries – similar to LAXNESTED – in V6.1 Background: We want to activate RULES(NOLAXENTRY(LOOSE)) but have some own (deprecated) functions reading the PL/I descriptors leading to some...
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow named Constants as Host Variables in imbedded SQL-Statements

Named constants should be allowed as "host constants/variables" in SQL statements - if they are to be used "read only".
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

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