The RPG enhancements with PTFs for 7.4 and 7.5 are announced today. The
PTFs will be available later.
See
https://ibm.biz/rpg_cafe#announcement
- Convert parameters to strings with OPTIONS(*CONVERT).
Idea
https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1547
- Concatenation built-in functions %CONCAT and %CONCATARR
Idea
https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-3008
- CHARCOUNT NATURAL mode to handle data correctly that has
different-sized characters, such as UTF-8 and mixed SBCS/DBCS.
Idea 2128:
https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-2128
Note that the title of the Idea mentions %LEN, but %LEN is not changed.
Instead, there is a new %CHARCOUNT.
Here's the link for all the TR announcements:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-75-tr1-enhancements
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-74-tr7-enhancements
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