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My votes: Languages - RPG

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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

Extend RPG compiler messages to support modern RPG naming

The current design for the compiler messages does not support the enhancements to modernize the RPG language. When messages are returned to a client via the *EVENTF option, the replacement values for the messages are limited to legacy system names...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Planned for future release

Allow DCL-S within enum to support exact parameter passing

I would find it useful to use ENUMs with Exact parameter passing. At present, anything within an enum is implicitly defined using "DCL-C". Exact parameter passing requires variables to be defined as being LIKE the same parameter type, and so an en...
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Planned for future release