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My votes: Languages - RPG

In the most recent TR LIKE(*EXT): Define a variable like one field in an external file was announced. Would it be possible to allow an initialization like the column/field in base file?

In physical files and SQL tables a default value can be set, when writing a new row. This default value sometimes does not match the data type default value. When defining a field like the column the database table, it would be great if it could b...
1 day ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Functionality already exists

Allow else blocks for monitor groups

In some situations it'd be useful to be able to have an else block in a monitor group to perform some handling that shouldn't be monitored itself and should only run when the monitored statements executed without exception. monitor: dosomething();...
7 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Allow EVAL-CORR to accept a procedure return value of a data structure type (likeds)

Today, EVAL-CORR only accepts data structure operands on both sides of the assignment. When a procedure returns a data structure defined with likeds, the return value cannot be used directly as the right-hand operand of EVAL-CORR. Developers are f...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Inmutable global variable for imports

Provide a way to declare an exported global variable that is writable by the module that owns it (the one with EXPORT ) but read-only for all modules that consume it via IMPORT . This is stronger than C's extern const (where the owner is also cons...
9 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Allow access to return value in ON-EXIT section

The ON-EXIT section (sub-procedure) is great, and it's even possivle to "override" the return value from inside the ON-EXIT section: //.. inside procedure return 123; on-exit; return 456;end-proc; But we have no solution so far to retrieve/see the...
22 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Extend the functionality of the IN operator

It would be a great help if the first argument of the IN operator could be extended to also enable arrays. This way, you could write a single statement to check whether an array element is present or meets the required bounds: Dcl-s myList char(1)...
24 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Support for returning and assigning multiple values

Knowing that this might be big deal in the ILE environment, it would be a good addition, to support returning multiple result values from a RPG procedure. Other languages like SQL or Python support this already. Example - imagine a procedure defin...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

REPEATPARMS Support for Repeating Prototype Parameters

Problem Statement Today, RPG prototypes require every parameter to be explicitly declared. When interfacing with APIs that accept repeated name/value pairs or variable argument lists, developers must manually duplicate parameter definitions dozens...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Under review

Typed pointers in RPG: Stronger type safety for pointers

Currently, RPG has exactly two types of pointers: Basing pointers Procedure pointers These pointer types hold no type information about the pointer's target. Currently, when defining a BASED variable, the compiler cannot verify that the variable's...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Future consideration

Add CCSID keyword to declared constants

Situation When we run a program in environments with different CCSID's and that program is using literals containing characters with different code points in different CCSID's (like square brackets '[' and ']' in CCSID 1140 and 1148) then ctl-opt ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Functionality already exists

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