Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Migration Guide

Considerations Before Migrating

Differences in Run-Time Options
Deleted run-time options
Replaced run-time options
New run-time options
Differences in Condition Handling
Timing differences
Unhandled condition differences
IBMBXITA and IBMBEER differences
ABEND U4039 differences
Severity differences
Differences in PLICALLA and PLICALLB Support
PLICALLA Considerations
PLICALLB Considerations
Differences in Preinitialization Support
Differences in PLISRTx Support
Differences in Multitasking Support
Differences in OS PL/I Shared Library support
Differences in DATE/TIME Built-In Functions
Differences in User Return Code
Differences in the opening of PRINT files
Differences in Run-Time Messages
Differences in PLIDUMP
Differences in Storage Report
Differences in Interlanguage Communication Support
Differences in Assembler Support
Assembler programs that find the main parameter list

Language Environment is now part of z/OS and OS/390 and you can start migrating your applications to Language Environment prior to installing a Language Environment-enabled PL/I compiler such as PL/I for MVS & VM, VisualAge PL/I or Enterprise PL/I. This chapter discusses the functional differences between OS PL/I run-time and Language Environment. These differences should be considered before migrating your applications to Language Environment.


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