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My votes: Languages - RPG

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    Add a JOB TYPE (Batch or Interactive) field to RPG's PSDS (Program status data structure)

    When exception occurs I need to know whether to alert the (interactive) user or send alert (a MSG or e-mail) to SYSOPR. To achive this in the curren state of things I need to call a CL PGM (that does a RTVJOBA) or query the V_ACTIVE_JOB_TYPE Check...
    13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Allow %RANGE & %LIST with ON-EXCPT

    In a MONITOR group with the ON-EXCPT operation code allow it to use the %LIST & %RANGE built in functions that can be used with the IF operation code. For example: monitor ; read TESTFILE ; on-excpt in %list('CPF1234' : 'CPF1235': 'CPF1236') ;...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.

    I'm missing a way to define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.It could either be an extended version of LIKE() or a new LIKEFLD() For example:dcl-s myField1 LIKEFLD(fldref.format2 : myField : +5)dcl-s myField2 LIKE(fldref.forma...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    New *EMPTY constant

    Follow-up on https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4107. Instead of using *blank / *blanks, when one wants to return an empty string from a function, instead of writing: return ''; One could write: return *empty;
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Prohibit changing the activation group name of a program

    If you create a program using the CRTPGM command, you have an ALWUPD() parameter. Setting it to *NO prevents you from changing the activation group name using the UPDPGM ... ACTGRP(new group) command. When you create a program using the CRTBNDXXX ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    In DATA-GEN, allow array count to be specified using a suffix in addition to prefix

    We are using both the DATA-GEN operation and providing IWS web service using the same data structures. Unfortunately, the nomenclature to specify an array length for the two systems are opposite. IWS uses array_LENGTH to indicate array length and ...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Better error handling with record locking done in a procedure

    Using procedures is far more beneficial than subroutines. There is a catch though that record locks are not handled well in procedures. Example 1 (works great): Record level logic in subroutine, or in mainline. When doing file/record level access ...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Add a compiler directive to emit a message to the compiler listing

    Under special circumstances it can be useful to add a user defined warning or error to the compiler listing - even to the extend, that a module should not compile. A new compiler directive "/MESSAGE" should be introduced like this: /IF NOT DEFINED...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Support value parameters for programs

    Sometimes it'd be useful to be able to change a parameter in the main procedure of a program. This feature could internally be implemented by transparently copying a const parameter into a local variable. For example this dcl-pr myprog extpgm('*LI...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    %SCANRPL to replace only *FIRST (or *LAST) occurence

    %SCANRPL is a nice and usefull function but sometimes we need to limit the replacement to the first or the last occurence. Of course we can code around it using %scan but nowadays UTF strings are more complicated so the code itself can became frag...
    8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

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