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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...
3 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.
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered
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Debug Tool marks real-time debugging code coverage

Is there a possibility that the debug tool in the "real time" will be show which lines have been executed or not?
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Issue an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE), if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used to reformat a date-time value

I would like to get an information message similar to IBM2840I (for TRANSLATE) issued, if SUBSTR, LEFT or RIGHT is used on any DATETIME or TIMESTAMP invocation, like in this code example: dcl out char(80) var; out = 'Run from: ' !! subStr(dateTime...
18 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhance usability of REPATTERN built-in function by making 3rd argument optional

While DATETIME and TIMESTAMP built-in functions do have a default pattern supported, for REPATTERN both patterns must always be specified, like in the following code example: dcl saveDT char(17);saveDT = dateTime(); out = 'Run from: ' !! rePattern...
18 days 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...
2 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 ->...
5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Example of how to build COBOL V6R4 “non OO COBOL to Java interoperability” applications in JCL

We want to establish a Proof Of Concept between COBOL V6.4 and Java. The IBM documentation says this is only possible under USS with the CJBuild Tool. But SCLM is the tool we use to compile our COBOL programs – but it doesn’t work in Unix System ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Delivered

Non-Stop TRAN and PSB

Customer requests Non-Stop TRAN and PSB to avoid DFS065 and U0456. IMS stops transaction when transaction abend occurs. Following transactions are not processed and DFS065 message is sent back to the input terminal until /STA TRAN command is issue...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

Provide Filter for Control Scripts in the Panels

We have a large number of scripts in our Metro environment in certain GDPS plexes. The ability to filter on script names with wild cards would be useful to only display script names of a certain naming convention
over 2 years ago in GDPS 20 Delivered