Re: Missing from RPG/LE

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans,

Those sound real good.  I would still like to see full support for operational 
descriptors and an options(*vartype).  Also, could you talk to the SQLRPG 
people and see if they could at least support all of the V3R7 RPG enhancements 
on the next release?  The reader cards in the manual don't even generate a 
response.

Thanks

David Morris

>>> Hans Boldt <boldt@ca.ibm.com> 09/25 1:36 PM >>>

BTW, here's what we expect to provide in the next
release of ILE RPG (not V4R3, but some release after
that):

- new datatypes:
  -- 1 byte integer and unsigned
  -- 8 byte integer and unsigned
  -- UCS2
- EVALR - right adjusted string assignment
- FOR - free format do loop
- LEAVESR - leave subroutine
- some enhancements to data structures
  -- OVERLAY(FLD:*NEXT) - no explicit offset needed
  -- implicit definition of subfields that have
     an overlaying subfield
  -- INZ(*EXTDFT) - initialize subfields of externally
     described data structures to DDS DFT value
- new built-in functions:
  -- %DIV - integer division
  -- %GRAPH - convert string to graphic type
  -- %REM - integer remainder
  -- %XFOOT - sum of array elements
  -- %UCS2 - convert string to UCS2 type
- some support for threads
- character variables can be up to 65535 chars long

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com 


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