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Propagate the JSONOMIT attribute from a structure parent to its members

If the JSONOMIT attribute is specified on a structure parent, and all its members are containing a null string or a zero value, then the whole structure should be omitted from output generated by the JSON functions. We need the same behavior as th...
9 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Add new JSONIGNORE attribute

The JSONIGNORE attribute would indicate that an element should be ignored by the JSON functions. If theattribute is specified on a structure, all of the elements of the structure would be ignored. Same behavior as XMLIGNORE.
9 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

New BIF: MEMUVALID()

We work more and more with UTF-8. To verify a longer Unicode String to be valid, we are very over the limits of the length of a variable. So we will need a BuiltInFunction like UVALID() but with Pointer and Length like the other MEM-Functions ->...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

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...
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

JSONPUT suppress empty array occurrences

Reference case TS015700520 Please provide ability to suppress empty occurrences of arrays when using JSONPUT* functions. If any element of the array is present, provide that array occurrence. If all elements of an array are empty, suppress the gen...
8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

JSONGET support for null objects

JSON text includes a JSON object that is sometimes valued and sometimes null. When the object is null, we receive ONCODE 5084. Reference case TS016062055 Given the following structure: Dcl 1 outStruc , 3 name0 char(10) , 3 name1 , 5 first char(10)...
7 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

support JSONOMIT for structures

Using the attribute JSONOMIT does not work on structures, only on variables. Therefore it is possible that there will be created null-objects if all variables of a structure are empty. To avoid empty objects (null-Objects --> :{}) and related P...
almost 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow un-named elements in JSON text

Enable an option to allow parsing of JSON text that contains elements that are not declared in the target structure. Currently this results in an error when using jsonGetValue builtin function. IBM0725S ONCODE=5065 Name in JSON source does not ...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Enable Enterprise PL/I programs which are compiled as NORENT (and linked into a NORENT/NONDLL program object/load module) to be able to fetch/call program objects which are linked as RENT/DLL, such as PL/I AMODE(64), JAVA, and other modern APIs.

Use case: Enterprise PL/I has the following requirements/restrictions documented in Chapter 1 of the Programming Guide (GI13-5620-00) regarding the RENT compiler option: “RENT (compiler option) If you link a module (either MAIN or FETCHABLE) conta...
almost 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Delivered

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