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Languages - RPG

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Add a way to associate a Binding Directory with a Subprocedure Prototype

When using /INCLUDE to pull in Prototypes, RPG developers also have to remember to specify the BNDDIR or BNDSRVPGM keyword on the CTL-OPT spec in order to include the related component that contains the procedure. This request would enable the dev...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Implement a %DTAARA built-in function in RPG IV

A %DTAARA built in function would be used to : When used as an lValue (left side of an =) Change the content of the data area. When used ias an rValue (right side of the = sign, or in compare opcodes) it returns the content of the data structure T...
10 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow Subprocedure Exported Name to appear on the EXPORT keyword of DCL-PROC

When building RPG IV modules, the export name of Subprocedures must appear on the Prototype's EXTPROC keyword. If there is NO prototype, it may appear on the DCL-PI's EXTPROC keyword. However, if there is no Parameter List, often the DCL-PI does n...
13 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Add %HEX (or %TOHEX and %FROMHEX) built-in functions to RPG IV

Utilizing the cvthc and cvtch functions for converting to and from hexadecimal notation is a valuable tool in RPG land. However, in the context of RPG development, we must rely on our own prototypes since IBM does not provide standard prototypes w...
15 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

Allow SND-MSG to use %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) more like the QMH* APIs.

I was using SND-MSG with %target(*PGMBDY 1 ) the other day and noticed that it does not work correctly -- or, rather, it does not work as expected (like the message handling APIs do it). When using (*PGMBDY 1) via QMHSNDPM or other QMH apis, the m...
21 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Needs more information

Relax requirements for using Ds in I/O

The general problem is about the compiler issuing a RNF7595 when I try to use the same Ds (or Likerec Ds) on diffent files sharing the same format and based on the same PF. This is an example: Dcl-f fileA01L keyed usage(*input); Dcl-f fileA02L key...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

Sort (auto-arrange) all content in /INCLUDE members in RPG IV

All content of included (/INCLUDE) members should be arranged in the source member so that the target (including) source member can be compiled. That is I want to include prototypes, declares, and even subprocedure implementation (body) in a /INCL...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

Relax requirements for /INCLUDE /IF /ENDIF in RPG IV

We still have to start the /xxxx directives (e.g., /IF, /INCLUDE, /ENDIF, /DEFINE in column 7 even in *FREE. Please eliminate this restriction and allow them to be speified in any column so long as all content before the /<whatever> is blank.
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 3 Functionality already exists

DATA-GEN multi types (polymorphic) during serialization possibility

Handle cleanly new modern APIs that allows for multiple "types" (say mainstream Microsoft Graph API ) usually inside an array (i.e. array of different things to attach to a chat message etc.). JSON doesn't restrict particulars types in - say - arr...
2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Under review

Add WHEN-IS-NOT clause to the new SELECT statement

The traditional SELECT/ENDSL allows when a=b and also allows when a <> b. However, the new SELECT/WHEN-IS/ENDSL does not allow a negative comparison, and forces me to go back to the older style. In this shop [and others I have worked in], th...
3 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Future consideration