Re: %list

Simple answer - because they aren't designed to <grin>.

Personally I would have liked to see that but ... If they take an array what are they expected to do. Perhaps if you saw a %Max BIF for an array you might expect it to return the index of the max item - not its value. It would probably be more useful in cases such as DDS arrays.

I suggest that perhaps you write up an RFE for the functionality, post the number here and we can all jump in and vote for it.

On Apr 7, 2021, at 4:30 PM, Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Btw, talking about "new" biff, does somebody know why %MIN and %MAX don't
accept an array as argument?

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Il giorno mer 7 apr 2021 alle ore 19:14 Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:

Hi Alan,

I hadn't read up on %list, so I wasn't sure what this use case is
supposed to determine. I looked it up in the spiffy new IBM Documents
and found

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=functions-list-item-item-item

which says %list returns a temporary array. So I it appears that
%list(a:b) = %list(c:d) is asking if each element of the first array
matches each corresponding element of the 2nd array. Is that the idea?
Does that work with permanent arrays?

The next question that occurred to me is what are the field types of
Q.CLADTE and Q.CLATME? Guessing purely by the names, it looks like a
date field and a time field. Back to the documentation, which says "The
operands must all have a compatible type.".

Is a date field compatible with a time field? IBM provided a link to
answer that question right there where it's needed:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ssw_ibm_i_74/rzasd/commontype.htm

The interesting thing there is that not only did it not answer the
question, but the person writing it started having problems with date vs
data, e.g.

"If all the operands have date type time, the result has data type
time with format *ISO."

* "If all the operands have date type pointer, the result has data
type pointer."

It's unclear based on that website whether a date field is compatible
with a time field. On the one hand, is 04/07/2021 compatible with
10:06:23? It's possible that the compiler would convert both to a
timestamp field internally, and therefore they would be compatible, but
I really don't know.

Btw, I used the "Contact IBM" link at the bottom of the page to let IBM
know.

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On 4/7/2021 5:57 AM, Alan Cassidy wrote:

A colleague where I work tried to use @list() like this:

if (Deleting)
and (%list(Q.CLADTE: Q.CLATME) = %list(CLADTE: CLATME)); //
Compiler cannot handle
iter;
endif;

And he got a compiler error:
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR. CONTACT SERVICE REP.

He was trying to find somebody who could submit a PMR.

I thought that was a cool application of it. I've always wished we had
a way to make comparisons with this syntax. Not only for the equal
comparison, but how much simpler a *LE comparison would be for opening
an SQL cursor with a SETLL type comparison, with four key columns!

--Alan Cassidy

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