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Status Planned for future release
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 14, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:
The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page
6.

Actually Hilite pli within ISPF EDIT marks this character // as syntax error.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 29, 2024

    Unfortunately, CUCI can't handle comments correctly if an asterik is following the End-Of-Line comments like this: //***** IBM should add this to the builtin HILITE.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 18, 2024

    Stronger: If IBM no longer wants to support its own languages in ISPF, open-source it, and we can start building a better ISPF ourselves...

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 18, 2024

    No, no, no. PL/I is one of the programming languages that is already supported by IBM. Having to use extra user-developed tools to add support to features added by IBM itself is an absolute and utter "NO!"

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2024
    As noted in Tom Conley's comment, this RFE has been addressed via the ISPF community and the CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI).
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 17, 2022

    This idea is satisfied in the CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI). It is available at http://cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT967.zip.

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