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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 18, 2014

ABENDS0C4 if fetchable PL/I program fetches itself

Main batch PL/I program abends with 0C4 and reason code 11, If a PL/I fetchable routine fetches itself with FETCH stament, and this fetchable routine is called by another fetchable program. So we think that this kind of usage can be controlled at the compile time of the fetchable PL/I routine. And PL/I compiler may produce an appropriate message for the developer.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - PL/I Compilers

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - PL/I Compilers

  • Guest
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    Feb 12, 2015

    this is part of Enterprise PL/I 4.5

  • Guest
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    Sep 2, 2014

    this is a reasonable request, and a message at compile time would be easier to handle than a sometimes obscure runtime error

  • Guest
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    Jun 23, 2014

    this could be useful in preventing a hard-to-diagnose run-time problem