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Languages - RPG

IBM i ILE Reflection: Runtime Symbol Tables, Source Cross-References, and AI Introspection

Synopsis Introduce native reflection capabilities to IBM i, allowing compiled programs to expose compiler-generated symbol tables through a supported ILE API. Inspired by Java Reflection, this would enable applications and tools to discover variab...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Runtime reflection for variables in ILE languages: new BIF/API to retrieve variable metadata (type, length, precision)

Synopsis Provide a supported, performant way to obtain metadata about variables at runtime in ILE programs. It can be a language-level built-in function in RPG or a system API callable from any ILE language. Problem statement ILE RPG offers only a...
2 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Adding support to compile display and printer files from sources in the IFS rather than only via dds stored in source phisical file

In modern development environments, traditional display and printer files are far from being completely obsolete.The SRCSTMF compilation parameter has long been added to the CRTRPGMOD, CRTSQLRPGI, and CRTCLMOD commands.Adding it to the CRTDSPF and...
3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

Determine the maximum number of array elements at compile time (*MAX16M)

If I define an array like this dcl-ds myArr qualified dim(*auto : 40000); fld1 char(100); fld2 char(100); fld3 char(100); fld4 char(100); end-ds; then the program compiles OK because we don't exceed the 16MB limit. Now I have to make a cha...
24 days 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...
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...
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...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

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...
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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