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Languages - RPG

    Support LOB (CLOB, BLOB, DBCLOB) natively in RPG IV

    Today to access a LOB column (field) in RPG IV, we need to have the source type as SQLRPGLE and declare it using an SQL keyword: DCL-S MYCLOB SQLTYPE(CLOB:1000); I am requesting that IBM add native LOB support for variable declarations in RPG IV, ...
    3 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Allow EVAL-CORR to accept a procedure return value of a data structure type (likeds)

    Today, EVAL-CORR only accepts data structure operands on both sides of the assignment. When a procedure returns a data structure defined with likeds, the return value cannot be used directly as the right-hand operand of EVAL-CORR. Developers are f...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 0 Submitted

    Extend prototyped procedure calls with "keyword parameters"

    SQL has the nice feature, to use optionally use keyword parameters instead of positioned parameters. My idea is, also extend RPG prototyped procedure calls with the option to use keyword parameters. Imagine the following procedure prototype: dcl-p...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Provide a DCL-DEFN and END-DEFN block to define stand-alone fields without DCL-S

    When declaring many fields in RPG IV, today we have to code DCL-S on every field name. It would be great to be able to do something similar to what we do with DCL-DS / END-DS and have a declarative block or "definition" block to define regular fie...
    15 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

    Add signals keyword to declare that exceptions may be raised by RPG procedures

    Summary RPGLE currently offers no syntactic or compiler-level mechanism to indicate that a procedure may raise an exception (*ESCAPE). Developers must either read the source of every invoked procedure (when available) or defensively wrap every cal...
    17 days ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

    Create %PROGNAME built in function

    We have the RPG built in function %PROC to return the name of the current procedure, I think it is time that we have the same for the name of the current program. By all means we can get this from the program status data structure, it would just b...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 10 Future consideration

    Define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.

    I'm missing a way to define a field in a copy source using a field reference file.It could either be an extended version of LIKE() or a new LIKEFLD() For example:dcl-s myField1 LIKEFLD(fldref.format2 : myField : +5)dcl-s myField2 LIKE(fldref.forma...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 2 Future consideration

    Typed pointers in RPG: Stronger type safety for pointers

    Currently, RPG has exactly two types of pointers: Basing pointers Procedure pointers These pointer types hold no type information about the pointer's target. Currently, when defining a BASED variable, the compiler cannot verify that the variable's...
    2 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 4 Future consideration

    Inmutable global variable for imports

    Provide a way to declare an exported global variable that is writable by the module that owns it (the one with EXPORT ) but read-only for all modules that consume it via IMPORT . This is stronger than C's extern const (where the owner is also cons...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Submitted

    Allow calculated values for CONST and INZ

    Currently, only hard-coded values ​​are allowed when initializing a variable or constant. dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(2147483648) ; dcl-c BIT31_EXC_SENT const(x'80000000') ; or dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SENT uns(10) inz(2147483648) const ; dcl-s BIT31_EXC_SE...
    6 months ago in IBM i / Languages - RPG 1 Not under consideration

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