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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on May 9, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

Declaration of like variables

Like Dcl-F/S/DS etc., it would be of great advantage to have a declaration type Dcl-Like. The format of Dcl-Like should be as under:
Dcl-like [LikeReferenceField] [Field1 {inz}, Field2 {inz}, ..., FieldN {inz}]


Use Case:

1. Dcl-Like would help reduce multi-line declaration of fields declared based on a particular field.

2. It would help reduce references to many fields for declaration of same type.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 6, 2018

    IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request at this time, so it is being closed.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2018

    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

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 10, 2018

    Other DCL statements list first the new variable, then the type/definition.

    Reversing this for Dcl-Like doesn't seem logical/consistent to me.

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