RE: [Bulk] Re: New Template Type

Thanks Barbara. I missed that one. I gave up on it years ago so didn't even pay attention. :)

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 5:42 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: New Template Type

On 2015-03-25 11:54, Brian May wrote:

While I don't disagree that signatures and binding would be greatly improved if parameters were taken into account (overloading anyone?), we should avoid PCML in the solutions.

PCML is a nice idea, but it lacks support for commonly used data types in RPG applications. Things such as Dates, Times, Timestamps, Graphic, procedure pointers, and certain variations of integers are just not supported in PCML.

Brian, I agree that PCML has too many restrictions for general use. But just to let you know that Dates, Times, Timestamps, and 8-byte unsigned are supported now. For the RPG compiler, you need an environment variable for releases and target-releases prior to V7R2M0, but it's in the base support for V7R2M0.

For 5.4-7.1, or if compiling on 7.2 with TGTRLS:
ADDENVVAR QIBM_RPG_PCML_VERSION VALUE('6.0')

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Barbara

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