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Status Submitted
Workspace IBM i
Categories Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Add better null support for DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN

When dealing with REST API's communicating with other platform must null handling be simpler, for both DATA-GEN and DATA-INTO.

Current:
This variable contains a json object with two key pairs "name" and "born". Both have the value null and are different datatypes.

dcl-s jsonstring varchar(256) inz('{"name": null, "born": null}');

dcl-ds bodyDS qualified;
name varchar(200);
born date(*iso);
end-ds;

data-into bodyDS %data(jsonstring) %parser('YAJLINTO');

Possible solution:
dcl-s jsonstring varchar(256) inz('{"name": null, "born": null}');

dcl-ds bodyDS qualified;
name varchar(200) inz('');
name_nullind ind;
born date(*iso) inz('0001-01-01');
born_nullind ind;
end-ds;

data-into bodyDS %data(jsonstring: 'nullind=yes') %parser('YAJLINTO');

Idea priority High

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