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My ideas: Languages - RPG

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%SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

%SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
5 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

new build in function %PASSEDVALUE

In procedures with optional parameters, the %PASSED-BIF can be used to check whether the parameters are passed. To use such a parameter, a local field must be defined and the value must be set in the local field when the parameter is passed, other...
5 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

All **FREE to be the first non-blank line in source code instead of strictly the first line

When I code, I always leave the top line blank for various reasons. Also many developers do the same. Some reasons include that RDi doesn't let you insert a line before line 1 (try it, it doesn't) but that's minor. For the most part, I want the co...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

provide QSYSINC RPG includes in full free format

Today, we have QSYSINC RPG includes members in fixed format. More and more applications are nowadays written using full free format. Even IBM has a strong focus on using this format. Therefore, it would be consistent to have QSYSINC RPG includes m...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

USEADPAUT as a compilerparameter

According to Preventing new programs from using adopted authority - IBM Documentation systemvalue steers how new programs get USEADPAUT attribute. If a developer are permitted to set *YES, all new programs will get that attribute and developer mus...
27 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

xml-sax -- invalid characters converted to substitution character

Now and then I experience that XML-SAX in RPG throws an exception RNX0351 - The XML parser detected error code 6. This is caused by the situation that an UTF-8 character can not be converted to an EBCDIC character. It would be nice if it was possi...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add OPEN *ALL to RPG to open all files not already open.

Files defined as USROPN or already closed must be opened manually and individually and code must make sure each file is not already open. OPEN *ALL would be the complement to CLOSE *ALL.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

6-digit date format for RPG

Hi IBM, On further checking, there is an IBM doc (date 2024-10-08) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=ios-changes-1940-2039-date-range-date-formats-2-digit-year that explained that new environment variable QIBM_QBASEYEAR apply to CL command, ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted