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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 30, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add new attributes to the TITLE option

The TITLE option of the OPEN statement supports only a subset of the attributes offered by BPXWDYN.
We need support for the following extra attributes:

CLOSE (free dataset on close)
RELEASE (release unused space on close)
RECORG(LS) (create a VSAM LS dataset)
NORECALL (fails the allocation request if the data set is migrated)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 30, 2023
    This has been delivered via updates to the PL/I library
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2022

    This requires no change in the compiler, and so will be available in current run-times when implemented

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