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This requirement has been re-assessed by the current team. We do not consider that the benefits are worth the additional language and implementation complexity. For quoted numeric values, optional spaces can already be used to improve readability as already mentioned. And 16777216 could be more clearly written as x'01000000' or equivalent, although that is obviously a special case. So we are not planning to make any change like this in the near future, and we are declining this request.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Enterprise Tooling
Product - High Level Assembler (HLASM)
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Enterprise Tooling
Product - High Level Assembler (HLASM)
I accept this this requirement - it will be added to our list of candidates
Sharuff Morsa
I agree with this RFE. It makes reading the contents of a constant much easier when the length is larger than 4 or so characters. This is the equivalent of the user of periods (.) or spaces in Europe or comas (,) in the US for 5 character or longer numbers.
I would find this to be very helpful. The reason is because it would make HLASM consistent with many other languages that I use.