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Languages - RPG

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    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)...
    almost 2 years 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".
    over 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.
    almost 3 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#...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple Occurrence Data Structure can not be used as an operand with the IN operator

    Using a Multiple Occurrence Data Structure (MOD) with IN and %list() results in a compiler error. *RNF0203 30 1 Refer to the compiler listing where this message was first *RNF0203 30 001100 OPERAND MOD OF 'IN' CANNOT BE A DATA STRUCTURE. But in th...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

    RPG dynamic array enhancement

    Enhance dynamic arrays dim(*auto/*var: maximum_elements) by allowing the "maximum_elements"-parameter to be a variable or constant. This would allow in embedded sql fetch command to use always the right amount of lines by using the relative variab...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Not under consideration

    Allow TEMPLATE keyword for standalone fields

    The template keyword allows data structures to be defined as a custom complex type simply for the purpose of defining other data structures with the same structure. Extending this to standalone variables will allow custom simple types to be define...
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Functionality already exists

    %Split should allow array index

    Currently %Split returns an array, but it would be nice if it would allow a single index of the array to be returned directly by coding for example mystring = %Split(string: ':')(1); This avoids using a work array.
    over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Not under consideration

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