Re: RPG Freeform Data Types

Just a suggestion Dave - but instead of complaining and asking "Why" - when it won't change a thing - why not instead spend a few minutes writing up an RFE requesting that IBM add these options? It is far easier for Barbara to justify spending time on it if she has an RFE to point to that if she just "feels like it".

I'll vote for it!

P.S. There was a %NullINd so there was precedence for that abbreviation.


Jon Paris

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On Jun 29, 2017, at 5:59 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 06/29/2017 05:05:08
PM:

On 2017-06-28 4:05 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Can I rant a little? Why was it decided to abbreviate the
integer, graphic, unsigned, and indicator data types?

Where there was a built-in function, %INT, %UNS, etc, we used the same
name for the related keyword.

Thanks. But there is no %IND() built-in function so why was the
indicator data type keyword abbreviated while the timestamp data type
keyword is the same length and not abbreviated? And for the other three,
why was there no allowance to also support the unabbreviated form?


Sincerely,

Dave Clark
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