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Replicate on RPGLE the cobol 88 Level

The 88 level number is not used to declare a variable, but it is used to provide a descriptive name for a condition, used to improve the readability of COBOL programs. In RPG can be coded e.g. as dcl-s flag char(1); dcl-s flag_on referer(flag) val...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Meta procedure (or API) for ILE (RPG)

With PCML we have the information needed to call any ILE ( RPG) program from any other language, or environment and knowing the parameter types and data going back and forth. However this requires that the PCML file is available and deployed along...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Not under consideration

Add report overview for Quantum Safe Scanning

currently in the new version the quantum safe scan option is only able to display results for each system, would be great to have a massive overview for big server farms.
4 months ago in PowerSC 0 Submitted

Provide an official and paid support line for the Opensource ClamAV with PowerSC

Customers in MEP, especially the Qatari banking sector, are looking for fully supported Anti-malware solution on IBM Power systems.Currently, it is doable via PowerSC with the Opensource ClamAV. However, ClamAV does not have official support chann...
11 months ago in PowerSC 1 Submitted

Provide a "not-in" operator

Now that we have a conditional “in” operator, please provide a “not-in” operator, that can be used wherever “in” can, eg, with %lists, %ranges, arrays, etc. Currently, we need to code the awkward if not (Value in %list(x:y:...)); with not-in, this...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 6 Not under consideration

Case sensitive RPG

Provide a control option to maken RPG case sensitive (procedure names, variables, …) so that enforcing programming standards becomes more easy. Use Case: I'm not requesting that variable "A" and "a" are two different variables , but rather that th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

Ability to specify a binary literal in the same way as a hexadecimal literal

I would like to have the possibility to specify a binary literal in RPG just like it is possible to specify a hexadecimal literal. For example the value x'A1' should have the presentation b'10100001' x'F8F0' is equal to b'1111100011110000' Use Cas...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

ALLOW i.e. READ opcode to return a value or be usable in expressions

Would be nice to have an idiomatic way to loop a series of record in RPG, like for example other common languages. For example ----------Dow not READ(myfile) = %EOF processingEnddo---------- Will allow for an idiomatic way to loop records, to be a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Not under consideration

%DECH enhancement for length and decimal places

The idea is to enhance %DECH() BIF: a) allow the the use %len() and %decpos() for parameters 2 and 3 Example: dcl-s n1 zoned(10:2) inz; n1 = %dech( 12345 / 1000 : %len(n1) : %decpos(n1) ); b) make parameters 2 and 3 optional and retrieve the lengt...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

Allow Dump operation code in ON-EXIT group

Allow the Dump operation code in the ON-EXIT group. If an error has happened a program dump can be generated.
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration