Re: New IBM idea - Named Parameters at Program and Procedure Calls

Birgittas named parameters are a fantastic idea, i'll bring it to CEAC !!!

Btw:

RPG to have dynamic data structures?

.. take a look at the noxDb framework - it actually does this - just like
you would do in JavaScript:

https://github.com/sitemule/noxDB/blob/main/examples/ex30sqlalt.rpgle


ex:

myDynaProc (nox_Object(
'id' : nox_Int (12345):
'name' : nox_Str ('System & Metod A/S'):
'street' : nox_Str ('Håndværkersvinget 8'):
'city' : nox_Str ('Hørsholm'):
'greeting' : nox_Str (u'4f605978'): // "Ni hau" in unicode
'creditLimit': nox_Dec (76543.21):
'createdDate': nox_Date (%date()):
'createdTime': nox_Time (%time()):
'dateTime' : nox_TS (%timestamp()):
'isNice' : nox_Bool (10 > 1):
'isUS' : nox_Bool ('DK' = 'USA')
));

or

myDynaProc (nox_Array('A':'B':'C'));



On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM Stephen Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

heck, enable RPG to have dynamic data structures. Just like a javascript
object. Then, each named parameter is a property ( sub field ) of the
dynamic data structure. And like javascript, the sub field of the dynamic
data structure can be whatever data type of the value assigned to it.

to call a program with a named sub field:

CALL OE530R PARM( { company: 01, ordnum: [123, 345]})

-Steve


On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 2:45 AM Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have added a new IBM idea, to allow specifying Parameter Names (and
assigning the parameter values) at program/procedure calls (in the same

way

as you can do it with SQL Stored Procedures, UDFs and UDTFs)
https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4826

Please LIKE if you think it would be helpful/useful

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser
Modernization – Education – Consulting on IBM i
Database and Software Architect
IBM Champion since 2020

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them

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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of

Barbara

Morris
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2026 18:50
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CCSID - RPG issues

On 2026-02-26 8:40 a.m., Birgitta Hauser wrote:

SQL could always handle single byte and double byte character sets ...
and
UTF-8 correctly. Transformation occurred automatically.
The problem was always RPG because the data is converted into the Job

CCSID.

BTW what is your Job CCSID? 65535?

He has DATA(*NOCVT) for the file and CCSID(*EXACT) for the data

structure,

so it should not be converting the data to the job CCSID.
With DATA(*NOCVT), it should get the data correctly even if the job CCSID
is
65535.

--
Barbara

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