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Languages - RPG

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RPG - options(*autostring) in prototypes

To get a more "polymorph" approach to transfer parameter to API's - it would be nice if a prototype could be declare to automatically convert date, time, timestamp, int, packed, zoned, char's and varchar to zero terminated strings with that same c...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Delivered

Extend ON-ERROR to accept message codes

In our codebase, we use a lot of user-defined message codes in *ESCAPE messages for our exception handling. We combine these with RPG's MONITOR op-code to trap the errors and, if possible, handle them. Identification of the last exception message ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

Add an enumeration type to RPG so that named constants can be qualified

Allow the use of the CONST keyword to define a datastructure as a constant Use Case: There is currently no mechanism for a complex type to be declared as a constant, immutable value. Providing this would also allow a qualified datastructure to be ...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 11 Delivered

%timestamp with micro seconds

Build in function %timestamp returns 000 in the micro second part. By using SQL you can get timestamp with micro seconds, but we measure a larger cpu consumption.The requirement is %timestamp with micro seconds and same performance as today! Use C...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Delivered

Support Array names and %SUBARR on %MIN and %MAX in RPG IV

The IBM i v7r2 RPG IV enhancements of %MIN and %MAX do not support the use of an RPG ARRAY name as their only parameter. This would provide the ability to extract the min/max of an array of elements. Supporting an array name as well as %SUBARR wou...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 12 Delivered

RPG datastructure array sort by more than one subfield

For RPG please provide extended sort capability for datastructure arrays. This means sorting of an array over more then one subfield.E.g.: sorta name_of_array(*) (subfieldx: subfieldY: …) using the names of the subfiledsOr sorta name_of_array(*) (...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 9 Delivered

Allow qualified names in like/likeds

Please allow to use qualified names in like/likeds keywords. It would really save many lines of code. Use Case: // Let's say we have such template DSDcl-Ds t_User Qualified Template; Login Char(10) ; Name Char(30); Surname Char(30); Dcl-Ds Address...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 8 Delivered

Enhance %DEC to recognize and accept thousands separators

Currently, the %DEC BIF interprets either/both comma and decimal -- regardless of the QDECFMT system value -- as the decimal point. If the character representation of a number contains both, error RNX0105 occurs. This should not happen. In an inte...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

%join() to catenate strings to one string

In Java there is the method join() to catenate strings into one string including a delimiter. I would like to have a function like this. For example%join( '/' : 'dir' : 'subdir' : 'file.txt')resulting in the string 'dir/subdir/file.txt' or if you ...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Delivered

Allow numeric variable as second parameter to %KDS

Currently, the %KDS bif has a second parameter to specify how many of the key fields are to be used in the I/O operation. This second parameter can only be a numeric constant (named or literal). Please allow a numeric variable (integer or zero-dec...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Delivered

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