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My votes: Languages - RPG

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Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

Create a new built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter. Similar to the %SUBARR function, but allow a procedure to be specified to determine if the array entry should be included in the result. Something like ... dcl-ds array...
8 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a procedure uses global variable

New Control Spec Keyword / Compiler Option to warn if a calculation in procedure uses a global variable Keyword: PROCGLBVAR with options *ALLOW *WARN *ERROR *allow - no compiler message if a calculation in a procedure references a global variable ...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

RPG Source compare for *functional* differences

As many of us are doing these days, we are converting our old RPG 3, RPG ILE, etc. to 100% free RPGLE (**free) and making changes in VSCode. This is good. However, When you have to Peer Code Review your co-workers changes, it is extremely difficul...
15 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

New *EMPTY constant

Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text

Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function, you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text! Instead of having each developer/company t...
17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add a preserve/overlay operation extender to the EVAL opcode.

When migrating the MOVE and MOVEL opcodes to free format, simple assignments are often the right choice. But in some cases, the MOVEL operation is effectively an integrated/implied substring operation. MOVEL 'ABC' CHAR20 Only replaces the first 3 ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

Prohibit changing the activation group name of a program

If you create a program using the CRTPGM command, you have an ALWUPD() parameter. Setting it to *NO prevents you from changing the activation group name using the UPDPGM ... ACTGRP(new group) command. When you create a program using the CRTBNDXXX ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Enhance RPG IV DATE FORMAT to include more clear 4-DIGIT Year Options

Extend RPG IV support for date format keywords in opcodes and built-in functions to include *MDYY, *YYMD, and *DMYY, enabling clearer intent and improving developer productivity when working with 4-digit year formats. There is a growing need for a...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Planned for future release

In DATA-GEN, allow array count to be specified using a suffix in addition to prefix

We are using both the DATA-GEN operation and providing IWS web service using the same data structures. Unfortunately, the nomenclature to specify an array length for the two systems are opposite. IWS uses array_LENGTH to indicate array length and ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

Better error handling with record locking done in a procedure

Using procedures is far more beneficial than subroutines. There is a catch though that record locks are not handled well in procedures. Example 1 (works great): Record level logic in subroutine, or in mainline. When doing file/record level access ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

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