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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 6, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Allow qualified values within Dim( ) keyword in ILE RPG

In moving towards more modular development, we're attempting to move our program set up values to a data structure however the DIM keyword doesn't allow qualified variable names.


Use Case:

Define a data structure:
SetupEntries Ds Inz Qualified
MaxEntries 5S 0 Inz( 40 )

OutColumns Ds Dim( SetupEntries.MaxEntries )


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 10, 2017

    RPG does not allow any variable name to be coded in the DIM keyword. The parameter for DIM must be a constant.

    If the purpose for using a qualified subfield is to allow the dimension of the array to be changed at runtime, there is another RFE related to that: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=90712. You can your vote to that RFE, and add a comment about your specific needs related.

    However, if your goal is just to set the dimension of the array according to the initialization value of the subfield, then define a named constant and use it for both the DIM keyword and the data structure subfield.

    MAX_ENTRIES C 40

    SetupEntries Ds Inz Qualified
    MaxEntries 5S 0 Inz( MAX_ENTRIES )

    OutColumns Ds Dim( MAX_ENTRIES )

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 13, 2017

    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 - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for Power Systems
    Component - RPG/COBOL Development Tools
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

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