This release provides the following functional enhancements
described in this and the other IBM PL/I books.
- IEEE Decimal Floating-Point (DFP) is supported.
This includes support for the following new built-in functions:
- ISFINITE
- ISINF
- ISNAN
- ISNORMAL
- ISZERO
Also, as part of the DFP support, the following old built-in functions have been updated:
- EPSILON
- EXPONENT
- HUGE
- MAXEXP
- MINEXP
- PLACES
- PRED
- RADIX
- ROUND
- SCALE
- SUCC
- TINY
- The new MEMCONVERT built-in function will allow the user to convert arbitrary lengths of data between arbitrary code pages.
- The new ONOFFSET built-in function will allow the user to have easy access to another piece of information formerly
available only in the runtime error message or dump, namely the offset in the user procedure at which a condition was raised.
- The new STACKADDR built-in function will return the address of the current dynamic save area (register 13 on z/OS) and
will make it easier for users to write their own diagnostic code.
- The new QUOTE option will allow the user to specify alternate code points for the quote (") symbol since this symbol
is not code-page invariant.
- The new XML compiler option can be used to specify that the tags in the output of the XMLCHAR built-in function
be either in all upper case or in the case in which they were declared.
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