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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 19, 2015

RDz9.1.1.1 - software analyzer for PLI should proceed with analysis even if there are syntax errors in the include files

We would like to have an enhanced software analyzer for PLI files, we need the analysis results to be produced even if there are errors with include files(copybooks) in the PLI source.
We have already raised the below PMRs for enhancing the performance of PLI parser and editor.
PMR 40366,004,000 - APAR PI52788 Software Analyzer for PLI programs is slow
PMR 40239,004,000- APAR PI52783 Software Analyzer with nested PLI includes
PMR 40250,004,000 - APAR PI52785 PLI Program with Nested Iincludes Shows

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2021

    Thank you for taking the time to submit an enhancement for IBM Developer for z/OS. Customer input is invaluable to our products and many new functions and enhancements result from feedback. All input is very important to us to improve and server our customers.

    We realize this Request for Enhancement has been in our backlog for quite some time and it is currently still not in our roadmap for the next two years. Instead of keeping it indefinitely in our backlog we have decided to respond with a decline.

    If you would like to discuss this decision in more detail please reach our to Joy Spohn (joys@us.ibm.com). Or, you can resubmit in 12-18 months for reconsideration. Thank you again for your suggestion.

  • Guest
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    Mar 2, 2016

    just want to express my support for this rfe (and any similar or related).
    there seems to be a lot of great functionality (code folding, call hierarchy, ...) that doesn't work on or site as we work with a typical (?) legacy codebase that regularely fails parsing.
    preferede solution would be a very robust & powerful parsing, but for the time being i assume it would be very helpfull if parser doesn't stop on first error but just skip the unparseable parts and complete parsing. thanks for listening.

  • Guest
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    Jan 22, 2016

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.