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PL/I Compilers

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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

Inline comment

For development and testing would it be practically if the Compiler would Support line comment not just block comment.For example // like in C or Java. But at the end the Syntax doesnt matter.An continue line Support for line comment would also be...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Expand new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function to support extended metacharacters

We would like to have the extended metacharacters supported via the new REGEX (regular expression) built-in function. This request bases on the RFE 112083 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=112083
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Built-in Support for PDS Processing

Currently, in order to read all members of a PDS it's necessary to first read the directory and create an array of member names, then either use an Assembler program to read each member or from PL/I dynamically allocate each fully qualified member...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Builtin function returning the main program name

Similarly to the existing built-in functions PROCEDURENAME and PACKAGENAME, we would like to be able to retrieve the name of the main program from any statically or dynamically called routine in the call chain.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

Show value of named constants in Compiler listing

Show value of named constants in Compiler listing
about 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Allow defined allocate in AREA

Since many releases, Enterprise PL/I allows the allocation of defined amounts of heap using the "ALLOCATE" builtin, to quote the manual: ALLOCATE allocates storage of size n in heap storage and returns the pointer to the allocated storage. It woul...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

GUID/UUID as bulitin function

A function to generate a GUID in CICS/Batch. Right now we use our own function to achieve this.
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

JSONPUT suppress empty array occurrences

Reference case TS015700520 Please provide ability to suppress empty occurrences of arrays when using JSONPUT* functions. If any element of the array is present, provide that array occurrence. If all elements of an array are empty, suppress the gen...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

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