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PL/I Compilers

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EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 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...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

LOOKUP builtin function

Lookups are usually done via do i=1 to n while(^match) ordo i = 1 to n until(match) loops. This type of processing is not efficient even (see the "Use Case" below) if subsequent matches match on a next item in a table. What is proposed is a new bu...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 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.
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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...
over 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!
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 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.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 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 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 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.
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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