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PL/I Compilers

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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...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 Maven Plugins

I want a maven plugin that allows us putting source code into maven projects and compile them on the mainframe.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

BIF: ROUND(x,n), n as expression

we would like to have the ROUND(x,n) builtin function to accept 'n' as an expression else than an Optionally-signed integer. example:DCL X DEC FIXED(11,4) INIT(3.1416);DCL Y BIN FIXED(31) INIT(2); DCL Z DEC FIXED(11,4); Z = ROUND(X,Y);
almost 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

init for alias

If you define an alias you may want some default init values for that type.If you would can add the init attribute to the type definition and use the value(::) keyword on the allocation, similar to define structure, you can use specific init value...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

BY NAME, Mis-Matched Level Numbers

A compiler warning should be issued when there is a level number mis-match on an assignment statement using BY NAME. Currently there is no compile-time notification that there is a problem. We only find out at runtime and only if data conditions e...
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 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 ...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add MQ support to 64-bits PL/1 applications

We are migrating existing PL/1 applications to 64-bits. These applications are accessing MQ via the MQ API and RRS coordination. There is currently no support for MQ 64-bits PL/1 callers, only for C 64-bits caller.Theoretically, the dll providing ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Simplify Json builtin routines

1) We tried the json commands in PL/I, but sorry, they are programmer unfriendly. If I want to use them well I have to write a program around them and this is really not what I want. 2) a variable type json would be interesting ... sample json get...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Data Type HEX

Please add data type HEX. DECLARE FIELD_1 HEX(6); Other compilers support this data type natively, for example Assembler. FIELD_1 DS X
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add XDECLARE/XDCL to declare sth. if it has not been previously declared in the current block.

New RFE separated from RFE 99587, which will be used to deliver XDEFINE onlyhttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=99587 Inspired by %XINCLUDE and the support of multiple %DCL of the same named variable in the MA...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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