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Status Not under consideration
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on May 26, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Need the current thread id

In a multi-threaded application, I need all tracing and debugging messages to display the current thread id.
The THREADID builtin requires the task reference in input and can thus not be used to return the current thread id.
I currently get the information I need the following way:

DCL CURRENTTHREADID BIN FIXED(31) BASED(POINTERVALUE(540));

Can I suggest that, if the THREADID builtin is called without any parameter, it returns the current thread id ?

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 28, 2020

    We have no plans to do this in the near future, and it's better for you if we admit that now

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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
    Reply
    |     May 29, 2015

    this is a good suggestion

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