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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 24, 2012

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Option to suppress RNF7031 messages in F-specs

I always clean up any unused variables in a program before I implement it so other programmers won't be confused. As an aid to cleanup, I compile the program with RDp and then double click one of the messages in the error list so the messages are placed into the source in the LPEX editor. It would be a quick way to spot potential issues if all the unused fields from files weren't posted to the F-specs, adding a lot of clutter that is of no concern to the programmer. I'd like to have an option to turn off posting the RNF7031 messages to the F-specs only to make it easier to spot the real issues. Of course, I would still want them posted to D-specs.


Use Case:

This feature would be useful in making program code and error messages in RDp easier to read, leading to fewer potential problems later and better efficiency.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 22, 2024
    If this Idea is implemented fully, there would likely be a new or changed parameter for the CRTBNDRPG and CRTRPGMOD commands, and there would likely be a matching new or changed CTL-OPT keyword.

    However, there is a partial solution for this Idea.

    The ILE RPG compiler has PTFs for target releases V7R4M0 and V7R5M0 to support a compile-time environment variable to prevent RNF7031 messages from being placed in the event file.

    ADDENVVAR QIBM_RPG_RNF7031_EVENTS VALUE('N')

    You could add this ADDENVVAR command in the "Initial command:" section in the Properties for your RDi connection.

    If you compile in batch from RDi, you should also add "CPYENVVAR(*YES)" in the "SBMJOB additional parameters" in the "Commands" tab of the Properties for your connection.

    The PTFs are:
    7.4 TGTRLS(*CURRENT) - 5770WDS SJ02912
    7.5 TGTRLS(*CURRENT) - 5770WDS SJ02922
    7.5 TGTRLS(*PRV) - 5770WDS SJ02923

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  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 29, 2020

    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 - Windows
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 8, 2019

    Not only f-specs are a problem, and the priority of this should be higher

    In XML processing, you often need to build huge data structures and templates that are nested and thus producing a high amount of unused fields. We have programs that being compiled results in up to 40000 RNF7031 messages. Compiling is very frustrating when you have to wait many minutes for the error list to appear, so we compile such programs with option(*eventf). But of course you then don't see the actual errors.

    So it would be a great feature to have an option to not load RNF7031 messages from EVFEVENT into RDi _at_all_.

    I also posted a topic about the problem in the RDi forum: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=758bf477-e0d9-4d6e-b857-5faa16f6f3f4&ps=25

    Please let me know if opening a separate RFE for the issue could help.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for Power Systems

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 7, 2012

    This RFE will be under consideration for a future release. Status has been updated to Uncommitted Candidate.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 2, 2012

    This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.

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