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Languages - RPG

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

Removes the need for throwaway temporary structures whose only purpose is to carry a return value into EVAL-CORR. Cleaner, more expressive code, consistent with the existing support for DS-returning procedures in plain assignments. Preserves the s...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

%like() function in RPG

In the recent years a lot of string functions have been added to RPG.But I'm missing a %like() function like we know from QUERY and SQL. it could be something like:%like('%day%' : 'Today is Monday and the sun is shining')and it should return true....
4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Provide a DCL-DEFN and END-DEFN block to define stand-alone fields without DCL-S

When declaring many fields in RPG IV, today we have to code DCL-S on every field name.It would be great to be able to do something similar to what we do with DCL-DS / END-DS and have a declarative block or "definition" block to define regular fiel...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Add signals keyword to declare that exceptions may be raised by RPG procedures

Summary RPGLE currently offers no syntactic or compiler-level mechanism to indicate that a procedure may raise an exception (*ESCAPE). Developers must either read the source of every invoked procedure (when available) or defensively wrap every cal...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

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();o...
2 months 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)...
3 months 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...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 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, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

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