Open PL/I

The following improvements are available:

• Support for Open PL/I applications that utilize CICS within Enterprise Server. This provides the ability to re-host mainframe PL/I applications to lower cost Windows, UNIX or Linux platforms while keeping PL/I code intact to minimize risk.

  Features include:

  • A new PL/I CICS precompiler.
  • Enhanced source level debugging.
  • PL/I RTS support for CICS applications.
• Improved language compatibility with IBM's z/OS based PL/I Compiler ensures faster migration of z/OS based applications to distributed platforms with reduced risk. Features include:

  Support for new language elements:

  • Variable names up to 100 bytes in length.
  • Support for user written PLIDUMP routines.
  • Support for STDCALL linkage on Intel platforms.
  • Support of named constants using the VALUE attribute.
  • Compound assignment operators: +=, -=, /=, |=, ||=, *=, **=.

  Support for new built-in functions:

  • ADDRDATA
  • CENTERLEFT/CENTRELEFT
  • CENTERRIGHT/CENTRERIGHT
  • FILEOPEN
  • FILEDDINT
  • FILEDDWORD
  • HEX
  • LEFT
  • LOWERCASE
  • MAXLENGTH
  • PACKAGENAME
  • PROCEDURENAME
  • RANDOM
  • REVERSE
  • RIGHT
  • SEARCH
  • SEARCHR
  • TALLY
  • UPPERCASE

  The INDEX built-in function is now supported with a third optional argument.

• New format of compiler diagnostic messages.