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Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on May 24, 2019

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Upgrades to the JSON GENERATE statement - JSON-CODE / root level

Currently, generating JSON using the JSON GENERATE command from a COBOL copy generates a root element, corresponding to the 01 level of the copy. However, this is not in compliance with the operation of most APIs and require a workaround. The JSON PARSE statement makes it possible to omit this element via the IS OMITTED phrase.
This statement can, moreover, return exception and non-exception code via the JSON-CODE and JSON-STATUS register, associated with runtime messages. This simplifies analysis and resolution of problems. These options are much more limited in the case of the GENERATE statement.

As a part of the “APIsation” of the Mainframe, and to facilitate interconnection between technologies, it would be particularly useful to improve the GENERATE statement on these two points to make it on par with the PARSE statement.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 10, 2020

    Support for thisRFE was delivered in the Nov 2019 V6.3 PTF (APAR PH18641) and in the Dec 2019 V6.2 PTF (APAR PH20084).

    V6.3 PH18641: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PH18641
    V6.2 PH20084: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PH20084

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 10, 2019

    This RFE is being accepted and will be updated once put into plan.

  • Guest
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    |     May 28, 2019

    This is pretty much a duplicate of my RFE https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=131718.

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