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Languages - RPG

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
15 days 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....
14 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

not %passed parameters can be not %passed for successive procedures

When we call a procedure that allow optionnal parameters, then to call successive procedures that again allow optionnal parameters, we need to check each one, then we can either call the next procedure with default value, or make a call for each c...
21 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted

add pattern matching to RPG

It would be nice to have a terse and compact way to assign a value to a variable based on one or multiple conditions. Many languages have a form of matching pattern to accomplish this. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=expressions-case-exp...
about 1 month 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, ...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG Submitted