I don't see the previous message I sent, so (just in case) I'll try again....
John McKown wrote: >What "bothers" me is the lack of JSON PARSE to go with the JSON GENERATE. Don't worry: it's already here! IBM started shipping the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit's JSON parser approximately one year ago, as I recall. If you have z/OS Version 2.2 you already have it, and if you have z/OS Version 2.1 you can get it (if you don't already have it) as part of the service stream. In other words, IBM's JSON parser is now a base part of the z/OS operating system. You should already have high performance (with zIIP exploitation), full function, fully supported JSON parsing in z/OS for all programming languages, including COBOL, at no additional charge. Just start using it. The toolkit also includes HTTP/HTTPS support, but if you only need JSON parsing in your COBOL programs or in other languages, that's perfectly fine, too. This parser is the JSON analog to z/OS XML System Services. It's quite well documented in the IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS 2.2, and Steve Warren presented an excellent session at SHARE 2015. His presentation is available from SHARE.org (session #17791). IBM also provides sample programs, yes including COBOL -- the Knowledge Center explains all that. Did you miss the announcement and shipment of this toolkit, perhaps? I recall there was some discussion about the new JSON parser in this forum, but there's so much great new stuff coming so quickly that it might be easy to forget. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
