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PL/I Compilers

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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

Update compile procedures to 2017

Decades ago JCL was enhanced with "if-then-else" statements. Would it be possible to use this in IBM provided compile jobs?
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add information messages to support DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself)

According to the DRY principle (Don't repeat yourself *) programmers should avoid or reduce redundancy in an entire program or business application. We think that the compiler and/or optimizer could detect such redundancy in a single source and wo...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 web connectivity and web service support

Currently, no web connectivity can be set up from PL/1. As a consequence, we cannot call web services from PL/1 batch programs on z/OS.We prefer to have some builtins to set up web connectivity and to call web interfaces described with WSDLs, XML ...
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PLI Compiler support for x86 Linux platforms

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development is an Eclipse based product that bundles the PLI importer functionality provided by RAD. We have a customer whose workstations are running Linux on the x86 architecture. They are unable to use our impo...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Mac OS support

Request for support of the PL/I Compiler on Mac OS.
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Check/Reject when a variable A based on a pointer initialized with the addr of a variable B is bigger than B

- a PLI V5.2 program runs smoothly but abends with S0C4 when recompiled in PLI V6.1- on analysis, the program has a poor writing, it uses a larger redefined area than the original area. This original area is used as I/O area. Presently, the compil...
5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Hash Tables

It should support the following basic operations: - Create - Insert - Delete - Search
12 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add built-in support for Tree data structures

Modern languages have built-in support for data structures such as linked-list (singly, doubly, circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees (Binary, Red-Black, B, …), … There are many types of tree data structures. At first, basic binary trees should be supp...
12 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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