PL/I for MVS & VM

Extend and optimize PL/I applications on IBM MVS and VM systems

IBM PL/I for MVS™ & VM is a software development environment for building and maintaining PL/I applications on IBM MVS and VM operating systems. The software provides interlanguage communication (ILC), common services and common functions to help you incorporate modern technology into your existing PL/I applications.

PL/I for MVS & VM provides features and options to enhance your PL/I applications and improve your return on IT investment.

Powerful development environment—provides capabilities to help application programmers enhance PL/I applications.
Interoperability—provides ILC support, common protocols and a single runtime environment, enabling applications to interface with various IBM products and other packaged software.
Code reuse and optimization—provides features for optimizing and reusing code in new applications.

Powerful development environment

Improves programmer productivity with a structured programming language, streamlined system interfaces and enhanced compiler options.
Includes virtual storage constraint relief for constructing large applications, debug tools and flexible runtime options.

Interoperability

Provides ILC to support functionality between applications.
Uses a suite of callable services provided by the IBM Language Environment®, allowing you to integrate packaged software into existing PL/I applications regardless of the language used.
Enables PL/I applications to interface with other IBM products such as IBM DB2®, IBM IMS™, IBM CICS® and IBM GDDM®.

Code reuse and optimization

Allows you to use existing code in new applications regardless of the source-code language used.
Provides enhanced double-byte character set (DBCS) support.
Supports dynamic calls.