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The cost to implement would not be worth the benefit. There are many other ways to accomplish this with other languages today
A group of 3 RFEs are related enhancements that COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) believes would work well together to enhance the CL language capabilities, so I am linking them together: 127728, 127731, 127732.
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority requirement that is important to be addressed. List parameters would be much easier to work with, just as they are when a REXX procedure is used as a command processing program.
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
IBM has modified some of the information in this request. In particular, the Source field was updated to indicate this RFE came from the COMMON User Group. Please contact us if you have any questions.
The CL language is lacking behind HLL like RPG.
Instead of adding one function or two, it would be more wise to add the ability to execute CL commands directly from within RPG. Like SQL.
EXEC CL from within RPG, similar to EXEC SQL.