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The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
IBM will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. This request will be updated in the future if IBM implements it. IBM will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this request.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. This is an issue when someone comes in from a non-IBM i environment, since IBM i requires them to remember the case rules. New developers would be comfortable faster if this RFE were implemented, making IBM i more like other development environments. The names also need to include embedded spaces.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
RFE 130271 might satisfy this requirement.
I now understand that the underlying issue is that RPG does not support alternate names with double quotes, and that using double quotes is the only way to retain the mixed case for the alternate name. So the requirement is for RPG to support alias names surrounded by quotes, as long as the name within the quotes conforms to RPG's naming conventions. If this requirement is implemented, the name used internally within RPG would be uppercased as usual, but a matching enhancement in RDi would pick up the mixed case version of the name within the quotes for the outline view and content assist.
Yes, that would satisfy the requirement in terms of the RDi usage. However, that would also mean from our side that we have to change the alias on all columns using one to use the double quote form which retains the mixed case in the alias definitions, correct?
Thanks,
Mathias
I believe it would satisfy this requirement if RDI content assist and outline view used the mixed case names. Please confirm.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Languages - RPG
Operating system - IBM i
Source - IBM User Group
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Application Development
Operating system - IBM i
Source - IBM User Group
Attachment (Use case): Example source displaying the structure of our code and the problem with externally described data structures not using mixed case for field names.