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Status Planned for future release
Workspace PL/I Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 17, 2025

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Allow specification of constants in the VALUE clause of the DEFINE ORDINAL statement

The compiler is currently  flagging the following code

/* HTTP status codes */                                
DCL 01 HTTP_STATUS_CODE                                
      ,05 OK                  BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(200)  
      ,05 CREATED             BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(201)  
      ,05 ACCEPTED            BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(202)  
      ,05 NO_CONTENT          BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(203)  
      ,05 PARTIAL_CONTENT     BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(204)  
      ,05 BAD_REQUEST         BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(400)  
      ,05 UNAUTHORIZED        BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(401)  
      ,05 FORBIDDEN           BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(403)  
      ,05 NOT_FOUND           BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(404)  
      ,05 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED  BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(405)  
      ,05 CONFLICT            BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(409)  
      ,05 UNSUPPORTED         BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(415)  
      ,05 TOO_MANY_REQUESTS   BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(429)  
      ,05 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(500)
      ,05 NOT_IMPLEMENTED     BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(501)  
      ,05 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(503)  
      ,05 TRANSIENT_ERROR     BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(509);

/* Service return codes (subset of HTTP status codes) */              
DEFINE ORDINAL SRV_RETURN_CODE                                        
    (SRV_OK                   VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.OK)              
    ,SRV_CLIENT_ERROR         VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.BAD_REQUEST)      
    ,SRV_CLIENT_UNAUTHORIZED  VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.UNAUTHORIZED)    
    ,SRV_SERVER_ERROR     VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
    ,SRV_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE                                          
                          VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE)  
    ,SRV_TRANSIENT_ERROR      VALUE(HTTP_STATUS_CODE.TRANSIENT_ERROR)  
    )                         PRECISION(31);                          


IBM1352I E      25.0    The statement element HTTP_STATUS_CODE is invalid. The statement will be ignored.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Nov 19, 2025
    The PL/I language would be cleaner if this was accepted
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