Re: 7.5 TR2 & %LEFT

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting. I followed the link you gave, which had this link 
http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-75-tr2-enhancements

which mentions %SPLIT, %PASSED and %OMITTED, but does NOT mention %LEFT 
or %RIGHT.


On 6/5/2023 1:23 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> Here's what the IBM doc says:
>
> * Rational Development Studio for i (5770-WDS)*
>
> Rational Development Studio for i continues to respond to the requirements
> from the user community to meet the needs of RPG and COBOL applications.
> The following new features have been added:
>
> For RPG:
>
>     - %SPLIT is enhanced to enable a special parameter *ALLSEP, indicating
>     that a value should be returned for every separator.
>     - New string built-in functions %LEFT and %RIGHT enable users to return
>     the leftmost or rightmost characters from a string.
>     - New built-in functions %PASSED and %OMITTED enable users to test
>     whether a parameter was passed.
>     - SELECT is enhanced to allow an operand. New operation codes WHEN-IS
>     and WHEN-IN specify the value to compare to or a range or list of values to
>     compare to within the SELECT operand.
>     - New command parameter PPMINOUTLN for CRTBNDRPG and CRTRPGMOD is added
>     to control the record length of the temporary file used by CRTSQLRPGI when
>     the RPGPPOPT parameter is *LVL1 or *LVL2. This parameter is specified by
>     using the COMPILEOPT parameter of CRTSQLRPGI.
>
>
> from:
> https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS223-078/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
>
>
> date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 18:08:28 +0100
> > from: Jon Paris<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: Re: 7.5 TR2 & %LEFT
> >
> > I thought those were CL or maybe SQL additions - not RPG.
> >
> > But I can't see them anywhere except in one announce doc that implies
> > RPG.  But they are not there and I have not heard of any plans for them.
> >
> >
> > Jon P.