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PL/I Compilers

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Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

New QUOTREM() builtin

There are times when both the quotient and remainder of a division are important, such as when working with times, where it may be far more convenient to work with minutes or even seconds, then directly with the unwieldy hh:mm[:ss] format.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Flag usage of character //

Last version of Enterprise PL/I compiler got an enhancement: The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. A compileoption, which flags the usage of character // would be helpful. See case TS003850293. https://www.ibm.com/mysupp...
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG to fully support OPT(2) or OPT(3)

When the PL/I compiler is performing optimization, it has the ability to move statements in the resulting executable. When this happens, the backwards traceability to the actual written source statement is lost. The information is avaiable in the ...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

IBM z/OS Debugger 64bit Support

・Decrease E-private usage when taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs When we take code coverage, E-private usage for the address space used by z/OS Debugger increases depending on the number of running program.Therefore w...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

New builtins SELECTVALUE and SELECTWHEN

based on builtin IFTHENELSE(expr, truepart, falsepart) we want to have two new builtins for select-functionality:SELECTVALUE(expr, value1, result1, value2, result2, ... , otherresult)SELECTWHEN(whenexpr1, result1, whenexpr2, result2, ... , otherre...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

PL/I to support multithreading under 64-bit

PL/I needs to support multithreading under 64-bit. Actually, when a multithreaded application executes a LP(64) PL/I program, it always works the first time, but afterward any subsequent call can fail if not run from the same thread. From the inve...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Compiler warning for active CICS HANDLE CONDITION on exit from procedure

If a procedure establishes a CICS HANDLE CONDITION but returns before doing an IGNORE CONDITION, the raising of a subsequent condition may result in an attempt to transfer control to the now inactive procedure. This leads to "unpredictable results...
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Partial qualified usage of Typed Struct members

Typed struct members seems to need full qualification all the time while "basic" struct members can be used partially qualified (if unique).Wouldn't it be great if typed struct members could be partially qualified too (if unique)?
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

GENERIC should support defined structs.

Given the fact that defined structs can/should be used to improve structure and subsequently readability and hopefully quality of code, it would be great if i could use them in GENERIC entries.
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration