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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2022

Add new IMBED directives to include a member with PROCESS directive(s)

Please add the new %IMBED directive to include a member with one or more PROCESS directive(s) with the following syntax - similar to INCLUDE but supporting one member only:

%IMBED member;
or
%IMBED ddname(member);

In addition, please:
- Add the *IMBED directive as a synonym for %IMBED (like *PROCESS for %PROCESS).
- Fully integrate it in the listing with Line.File and in the “File Reference Table” plus the SYSXLSD output as well.
- Add a BEGIN and END comment, especially for the MDECK (SYSPUNCH) output but in the listing as well.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jun 10, 2022
    This will make it easier to get options out of the source file and easier to change the options for a set of programs (if they have all specify the same file to imbed some options, I need change only that file). delivered in the 6.1 release this May
  • Guest
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    Mar 22, 2022
    This will make it easier to get options out of the source file and easier to change the options for a set of programs (if they have all specify the same file to imbed some options, I need change only that file)
  • Guest
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    Mar 21, 2022

    If you want 1), you can freeze the compiler options via IBMZIOP, what we do for some of the options too, but since Enterprise PL/I there are so many options, e.g. RULES options, which should be used to develop new and modern code.

    2) and 3) are no option for us, as our developers do not have any other solution than the PROCESS statement to use because the compile JCL is fully generated by ChangeMan.

  • Guest
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    Mar 11, 2022

    1) Users should not ever be allowed to override compiler options

    2) The compiler already shows the *process options in the listing, and if you use "+DD" it will show them in separate sections.

    3) And if you want to let users shoot themselves in the foot, I do not see any advantage of using this method to the far more normal method of defining site-specific options, and using JCL that includes these for every compilation, i.e. something like this

    //IBMZPLI EXEC PGM=IBMZPLI,
    // REGION=0M,
    // PARM=('+DD:OVER +DD:USER +DD:NOOVER')
    //*
    //OVER DD DSN=&DATA(PXOVR&PLIVER.Z),
    // DISP=SHR
    //*
    //USER DD *
    //*
    //NOOVER DD DSN=&DATA(PXALL&PLIVER.Z),
    // DISP=SHR

    where
    - DD:OVER + PXOVR53 has over-ridable options for EPLI 5.3,
    - DD:USER allows users to shoot themselves in the foot, via a procedural override andm
    - DD:NOOVER + PXALL53 has options that cannot be changed (of course they can by power-users...)