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new function for updating a date by days and the result is a workday

addWorkdays( n, d, p, t [ , tx ] ) - Where n is the count of workdays, d is the date (e.g. '20250327'), p is the pattern (e.g.'YYYYMMDD'), t is a table of holidays, and tx is an optional second table of holidays.
4 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

new function returning an updated date in pattern p with a given date in pattern p updated by days d

It could work as follows: daysUpdate( x, d, p ) - returning an updated (by d days) date in pattern p given a date x in pattern p and correspondingly secondsUpdate( x, s, p ) which would do the same for a time
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

new builtin-function returning the last day of the month

In some situations it is necessary to know the last day of a month, so a new function would be usefull: endofmonth( x, p ) returns a date in format p with the day value changed from that in x to the last day of the month
7 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

new builtin function checking leap year

Would it make easier to handle date calculations in PLI, e.g. isleap( x, p ) returns true if the date x in format p specifies a leap year
7 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

new function to calculate the number of days between two dates

daysDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of days between 2 dates and correspondingly secondsDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of seconds before 2 times (or dates)
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

use the weekday builtin function with two parameters(date x, format p)

This would be an easier way to use the function weekday: weekday( x, p ) returns weekday( days( x, p ) )
6 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Builtin function for CMPSC & zEDC (data compression)

In CICS, we're currently heavily relying on compression of data before we write the data to VSAM datasets. This is currently done by a no longer supported ISV software. We think about how to migrate it to a better solution that provides better way...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

V6R1 parameter to batch main should be always inonly

Wrong Coding is shown by compile before testing it. Therefore declare of a parameter to batch main causes IBM2670I W messagePlease append message text with INONLY attribut: The parameter to MAIN should be declared as CHAR(*) VARYING INONLY . Also ...
11 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reporting spool(PUT) statements at compile time to avoid unnecessary performance issues on runtime

Spool statements using on test phase can be forgotten during production transition. This will cause unnecessary performance degredation. So, PUT statement usage can be reported during compile time. Compiler message can be displayed different messa...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DELAY statement under CICS for millisecond range

Presently the DELAY statement in Enterprise PLI/I for z/OS supports milliseconds only for Batch – under CICS-Environment it rounds down to the nearest second. It would be helpful if it also works for CICS in the millisecond range – especially if t...
2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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