On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote:
> John McKown wrote: > >What "bothers" me is the lack of JSON PARSE to go with the JSON GENERATE. > > That announcement letter didn't mention it (maybe it should have), but one > year ago IBM shipped standard, high performance, high function, fully > supported JSON parsing services in z/OS for all languages/runtimes, > including for COBOL. Take a look at the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit > specifically. Steve Warren's SHARE session in 2015, Session #17791, and the > IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS 2.2 are excellent sources of information. > > Have you taken a look at that toolkit yet? It looks like at least some of > you missed it. [Maybe I'm falling down on the job. :-)] Yes, the z/OS > Client Web Enablement Toolkit exploits zIIPs quite nicely. The z/OS Client > Web Enablement Toolkit ships with z/OS Version 2.2 and can be added to z/OS > 2.1 via the service stream. This parser is the JSON analog to the z/OS XML > System Services. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit also includes > HTTP/HTTPS support, but whether you use that HTTP/HTTPS support or not this > toolkit is where you find z/OS's JSON parsing services. > Thanks for the pointer to that. I'd never heard of it. But, IMO, it would still be nice to have a JSON PARSE verb similar to the XML PARSE verb to COBOL-ify the calls to the z/OS supplied service. <ducking> Ya, know, COBOL programmers tend to be more parochial than the "more sophisticated" PL/I and C programmers. So they need real COBOL verbs instead of a CALL interface </ducking>. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > -- The man has the intellect of a lobotomized turtle. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
