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Status Delivered
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 14, 2024

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JSONPUT generate special value null


Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.
Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively, a null indicator could be implemented similar to DB2 interactions.

A compile parm would not work since the same program (and even the same JSON) could have different rules for how to handle empty values as either null or empty or omitted.

This should also apply to arrays.
JSONOMIT might produce:

{“myArray” : [ ] }

While JSONNULL might produce

{“myArray” : null }




Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 13, 2024
    This has been delivered and is available with compiler APAR PH61785 / PTF UI97252 which requires library APAR PH61737
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 9, 2024
    We could add a JSONNULL attribute to support this, and yes, it should conflict with JSONOMIT

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