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PL/I Compilers

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Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level.

Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level. Example: Main calls subroutine A, A calls subroutine B: at that point the call stack level is 3 (assuming Main starts at 1). CALL A; A: PROC; CALL B;END A; B: PROC; PUT SKIP ...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Allow to execute some code upon dll load

I have a dll requiring some code to be executed once at dll load time.Some reserved variables must be initialized (but not possible with a simple INIT clause) and some imported variables (from another dll) must be accessed at that time.
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

VALIDDATE shall support more date/time/timestamp patterns

validdate(to_be_tested, <pattern>) shall support a broader range of date/time patterns. in an ideal world any combination of yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mi, ss, 9999 with any kind of separators (,-;:_.+/\?`^?) are supported. as a minimum the commonly ...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Builtin to determine level of recursive calls

When using recursive procedures, it would occasionally be useful to know if the procedure currently active is called directly, or recursively, and in the latter case, provided such information is available in control blocks, at what level of recur...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Additional compound operators for reverse operations

Enterprise PL/I at some stage introduced the originating from C compound operators, i.e. +=-=*=/= and quite justifiably added **=||= All of them, lets generically use the term ?=, in essence "expand" x ?= y ; into x = x ? y; It might in some circu...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Inline/internal %INCLUDE

When the same structure is used multiple times in a program, it's easy to declare it once in full and reuse it in other structures declared with LIKE. When used this way, any change to the "base" structure" will automagically be applied to all its...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Add a Built-in Function to Invoke the SVC99 Service to the PL/I Compiler

Access to the SVC99 service from PL/I is lacking and must currently be done via a call to an intermediate assembler program. Can a built-in function to access the SVC99 service be added to the compiler?
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced(?) "NOELSEIF" compiler RULES() option

One of the sub-options of the compiler RULES() options keyword is (NO)ELSEIF, to flag long deeply nested IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN-ELSE-IF-THEN... statements, for potential replacement by SELECT-WHEN-WHEN-OTHER statements.
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Issue an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE), if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used to reformat a date-time value

I would like to get an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE) issued, if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used on any DATETIME or TIMESTAMP invocation, like in this code example: dcl out char(80) var; out = 'Run from: ' !! subStr(dateTime...
13 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enhance usability of REPATTERN built-in function by making 3rd argument optional

While DATETIME and TIMESTAMP built-in functions do have a default pattern supported, for REPATTERN both patterns must always be specified, like in the following code example: dcl saveDT char(17);saveDT = dateTime(); out = 'Run from: ' !! rePattern...
13 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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