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Languages - CL (Control Language)

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Allow library for Prompt Override and Choice programs to be changed to close security hole.

Products and utilities that can be restored into any library need to be adjusted at 'install' time to properly library qualify pieces of the package. UPD[SRV]PGM SRVPGMLIB( ) and CHGCMD PGM( ) VLDCK( ) HLPPNLGRP( ) PMTOVRPGM( ) are helpful for thi...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Submitted

Improvement to the DSPPGMREF command

The command currently does not generate information about the commands used in a program.The improvement is to include information about this type of objects and be useful when performing some type of forensic analysis on the IBM i
11 days ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Future consideration

Allow for MONMSG MSGID(*ALL)

It is not possible to create a program that monitors for all messages. Examples of CL programs that want to do this are Unit Testing Frameworks, Event Dispatching frameworks, etc.. Often it is not possible to know what messages return from a comma...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 3 Future consideration

Shutdown BIF, similar as SHTDN in RPG

Add a BIF for Shutdown as in RPG. Benefitter would be CL-coder, not having to call a RPG procedure to do the check if job/subsystem/system are going down.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

Long variable names in CLLE

Allow variables to be defined with names longer than 10 characters in CL. This will allow CL code to be more readable and potentially reference long column names in tables.
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

Qualified data structures in CLLE

When defining a data structure in CLLE with DCL STG(*DEFINED), allow subfields to be defined as qualified in a similar way to RPG. e.g. DCL &STRUCT *CHAR(100) DCL VAR(&SUBFIELD) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) + LEN(2) DEFVAR(&STRUCT 1) QUAL...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Planned for future release

Add PGM parameter to Command Definition (CMD) command

On CRTCMD, PGM parameter defines the command processing program (CPP) for the command being created. Add this parameter to the CMD definition statement so the CPP can be coded within the command source. Today, the CPP must be specified each time t...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Planned for future release

Add AUTO-PROMPT job attribute for F9=Retrieve(d) CL Commands on Enter

When using the IBM i command entry F9 or F8 to retrieve a prior CL command, I would like a job attribute that controls whether or not that CL command can be run directly via Enter or Prompted on Enter. This would give us an "Are you sure" failsafe...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a CL Command Parameter Option for Required when INTERACTIVE

some CL command parameters can be designated as MIN(1) which makes them have a value before the command may be run. We need a way to set parameters to REQUIRED when they are run interactively vs batch. Add a RQD parameter (or similar) to PARM stat...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 2 Not under consideration

Deliver a Generate List of Menu Options API

Standard (legacy?) IBM i menu object create a *MSGF that contains the Menu options as a MSGID entry. These menu options can be retrieved using the QMHRTVM easily.However our UIM-based IBM menus have no such equivalent and therefore present a probl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - CL (Control Language) 8 Not under consideration

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