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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2020

Add ALL | SOURCE as 1st and STRICT | LOOSE as 2nd new suboptions to RULES(NOLAXINOUT)

We would like to get 2 new suboptions to RULES(NOLAXINOUT):

- ALL (default) or SOURCE as 1st suboption with the same meanings like for all other options.
- STRICT (default) or LOOSE as 2nd suboption where STRICT means it applies to all INOUT variables (explicitly declared with INOUT or INOUT applied by default) and LOOSE only to those explicitly declared with INOUT.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jun 3, 2020

    Delivered as part of APAR PH25933 / PTF UI69864 for 5.3

  • Guest
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    Jun 1, 2020

    Adding STRICT and LOOSE to NOLAXINOUT will probably be very useful especially since STRICT might produce too many messages