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XML-INTO to have full UTF-8 support, or work as old time "MOVE" function and don't care of what the content is, just dump it into the receiving variable.

XML-INTO to have full UTF-8 support, or work as old time "MOVE" function and don't care of what the content is, just dump it into the receiving variable. example: incomingfile.xml encoded in UTF-8 should be parsed and a number of data should be st...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future 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...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

Large XML File Support for RPG

Our company processes XML files larger than 2GB on a regular basis, and we are currently unable to (easily) use RPG to parse these files beyond the 2147483408 character limit. Use Case: Enabling the RPG XML-SAX or XML-INTO operation codes to handl...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Add %OFFSET built-in function to retrieve the position of a Subfield within a Data Structure

Uisng APIs and other interfaces often provides a "Bytes Returned" value. This logical can mean that we can only retrieve data from the returned locations if it was in fact returned by the API. I would like to use something like: IF (objDesc.bytes_...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

Add *TARGET to all RPG functions similar to *SRC in DDS

Example: %SUBST(NAME:1:1)=%UPPER(*TARGET); /* new way var. NAME is mentioned only once and %SUBST is not repeated*/ Instead of %SUBST(NAME:1:1)=%UPPER(NAME:1:1); /* var. NAME is repeated twice */ Also in mathematical statements: COUNTER=*TARGET+1 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future 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...
8 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Future consideration

add loop DOU_LEAVE (Do Untill Leave)

Standardization Currently if I need to loop untill end of file' I would do as follows. SETLL file1;DOU %EOF(file1); read file1; if %EOF(file1); LEAVE ENDIF; exsr SR01; ENDDO %EOF appears twice which is not perfect code. I could repalce the first l...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Possibility to specify a compare procedure for SORTA and %LOOKUPxx

I would like to have the possibility to specify a compare procedure for SORTA and %LOOKUPxx in the way we are doing with the qsort and bsearchIt would make both instructions much more flexible. The pointer to the compare procedure should be added ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 5 Future consideration

STRDBG can not show values of variables based on pointer given as parameter

It's not possible to show the value of variables which based on a pointer given as parameter in STRDGB. If you try to display "pTest" with F11 of the following example you get : EVAL pTest PTEST.V1 = '**********'PTEST.V2 = '**********' Example : d...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 7 Future consideration

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