The Base Toolkit - PL/I details

In the PL/I library for the Base Toolkit you will find 13 members, including code that demonstrates:

• Accepting and working with PARM data from the EXEC statement
• Working with files containing fixed length records and variable length records
• Static and dynamic invocation of subroutines
• Coding subroutines
• Report logic
• Linked list handling
• Using the following language features:
• Mixed case code
• Use '*' for data item names if data item is not referenced in the program
• Builtin function addr
• Builtin function datetime
• Builtin function index
• Builtin function length
• Builtin function min
• Builtin function null
• Builtin function pliretc
• Builtin function string
• Builtin function substr
• Builtin function verify
• Signal endpage
• Stream I/O
• Based storage
• Options(fetchable)
• Allocate
• Pointer references
• Passing and receiving data between subroutines

In addition, the User's Guide discusses how to:

• Code *PROCESS statements
• Code compile time parms in external data sets
• Use dynamic call (fetch)
• Bind programs to be called as subroutines both statically and dynamically

Related courses: PL/I curriculum.