Re: PTF enhancements for RPG

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed - particularly when wanting to do away with I-specs and you still have to dal with S/36 type multi-record format data.

Pity that the main new feature (dynamically sized arrays) is not going to be available for 7.3 - it is 7.4 only which means I have to upgrade before I can use it.


Jon Paris

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> On Apr 23, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Very nice.  SAMEPOS will address a couple of use cases I've run into over the years.
>
> On 4/23/2019 10:55 AM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> > There are two enhancements for RPG available today.
> >
> > See the following pages in the RPG Cafe wiki for details.
> >
> > - One enhancement is for the RPG compiler, for 7.3 only: The new SAMEPOS keyword for data structure subfields: http://ibm.biz/rpg_samepos_keyword
> >
> > - One enhancement is for the RPG runtime, for 7.2 and 7.3: Two new subfields for the PSDS: http://ibm.biz/rpg_psds_int_job_sys_name
>
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