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Languages - RPG

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    Allow Subprocedure Exported Name to appear on the EXPORT keyword of DCL-PROC

    When building RPG IV modules, the export name of Subprocedures must appear on the Prototype's EXTPROC keyword. If there is NO prototype, it may appear on the DCL-PI's EXTPROC keyword. However, if there is no Parameter List, often the DCL-PI does n...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration

    Allow SND-MSG to use %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) more like the QMH* APIs.

    I was using SND-MSG with %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) the other day and noticed that it does not work correctly -- or, rather, it does not work as expected (like the message handling APIs do it). When using (*PGMBDY 1) via QMHSNDPM or other QMH apis, the m...
    11 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Is a defect

    DATA-GEN multi types (polymorphic) during serialization possibility

    Handle cleanly new modern APIs that allows for multiple "types" (say mainstream Microsoft Graph API ) usually inside an array (i.e. array of different things to attach to a chat message etc.). JSON doesn't restrict particulars types in - say - arr...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Enhance RPG IV RENAME F-spec keyword to support *EXTFMT or *RCDFMT

    Please enhance the RPG IV File Spec RENAME (Rename Record Format) keyword so that a Developer can specify *ONLY or perhaps *RCDFMT or *EXTFMT (any are fine) so that the external format name need not be known at compile-time. Thus instead of RENAME...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

    Allow ON-EXCP to use a simple qualified name

    The invention of the enum structure is great for documenting return codes or exception IDs for particular purposes. These can be used on the ON-EXCP opcode to clarify the meaning of each message ID monitored. Qualification of structures (or enums)...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Is a defect

    RPG Language Feature - Variable Triggers - Computed Properties

    Languages like Apple's Swift, Java, Python, C# have this fantastic feature called "Computed Properties". Think of them as "variable triggers". If new phrasing can be added to RPG's Dcl-S when defining a work variable, that would specify logic to b...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

    Add a new device web

    It will be great to replace the workstation green screen with a device in a web navegator. Instead of DDS it can use an "HTML mask".
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

    improve compilation cross reference with location in memory

    Hello, I'm working again on expanding the size of a field in the database. I previously encountered difficulties with fields that overlaps in data structures. Exploration of the rpgle compilation cross references gives me a lot of information abou...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Loading methods in Subfiles

    I am entering another idea - in fact, thoughts about loading methods. Please find the attached document. Thank you.
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

    Tagging conditional statements like IF, DO, SELECT

    Statements like IF - ELSE - ENDIF, SELECT, LOOPs should have tag (or Id) assigned to the beginning and end (and if required in between). Example: /Free IF#1: IF (cond1) { Set-of-statements;} IF#1-1: IF (inner-condition 1) { Set-of-statements;} IF#...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

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