Importing a PL/I language structure

The CICS® event binding editor imports PL/I data structures using the following rules. Because the Enterprise PL/I compiler and older PL/I compilers differ, two language options are supported: PL/I and PLI Enterprise.

PL/I field names are displayed according to the following rules:

  1. Characters that are not valid in XML element names are replaced with 'x'.

    For example, monthly$total becomes monthlyxtotal.

  2. Duplicate names are made unique by the addition of one or more numeric digits.

    For example, two instances of year become year and year1.

The following restrictions also apply: