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    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;
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Pendant to SND-MSG to retrieve the error message text

    Being mainly a C# developer, it seams for me completely absurd that in RPG when you send an escape message with the SND-MSG function, you don't have a built in function to retrieve the error message text! Instead of having each developer/company t...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

    Add a preserve/overlay operation extender to the EVAL opcode.

    When migrating the MOVE and MOVEL opcodes to free format, simple assignments are often the right choice. But in some cases, the MOVEL operation is effectively an integrated/implied substring operation. MOVEL 'ABC' CHAR20 Only replaces the first 3 ...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Submitted

    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 ...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    4 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 ...
    5 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...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Allow checking multiple defined conditions with one /IF compiler directive

    Checking multiple defined conditions is cumbersome - if a part of code should only be combined when two conditions are defined, one has to use nested /IF directives: /IF DEFINED(condition1) /IF DEFINED(condition2) // code only compiled when condit...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Enhance Dcl-Enum to be multilevel as Dlc-Ds

    Dcl-Enum is very usefull but could be even better if provides multi-level definition as Dcl-Ds: Dcl-Enum Errors qualified; Dcl-Enum Severity; Info 'I'; Halt 'H'; End-Enum; Dcl-Enum Actions; Abort 'A'; Exit 'E'; End-Enum; End-Enum; Select RetCode; ...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Enhance maximum variable length to 4GB

    More and more we need to handle data with sizes over 16MB ie XML, so it would help a lot if it was possible to handle the maximum amount of data in a variable. Therefore I would like to have the possibility to define variables in RPG with a size o...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Under review

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