PLI for VSE

Features and benefits

Applications written using PL/I for MVS™ & VM can interface with a variety of IBM products including:

• SQL/DB
• DB2®
• IMS
• CICS®
• GDDM
• Data Window Services available on MVS/ESA™

The consistent interlanguage communication support, common protocols, and suite of callable services provided by Language Environment allows easier access to in-house applications or vendor packages written in PL/I for MVS & VM.

IBM PL/I for MVS & VM, together with Language Environment, provides:

• Consistent interlanguage communications, common services, and common functions, which helps extend the useful life of existing applications
• Improved dynamic calls
• Capabilities to help application programmers incrementally enhance applications
• Help in maintaining and enhancing the investment in existing programmer skills

IBM PL/I for MVS & VM provides:

• Facilities to acquire and integrate packaged software, consistent with the vendor's terms, into existing applications irrespective of the language used.
• Ability to use existing code in new applications (code reuse) regardless of the source code language used.
• Functionality between applications with improved interlanguage communication (ILC).

IBM PL/I for MVS & VM includes:

• Enhanced compiler options
• Virtual storage constraint relief
• Structured programming language for improved programmer productivity
• Enhanced double-byte character set (DBCS) support
• Streamlined system interfaces
• Expanded code optimization
• Flexible run-time options

PL/I for MVS & VM is enabled to Language Environment and has Debug Tool support. Enhancements to PL/I on the mainframe will be based on the Language Environment platform.

For more information, see the IBM Redbooks site for PL/I for OS/2 Toolkit: Visual PL/I; CODE/370 PL/I Support.

 

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