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Upcoming 7.4 and 7.5 RPG enhancements are announced today

  • 1.  Upcoming 7.4 and 7.5 RPG enhancements are announced today

    Posted Tue October 11, 2022 10:28 AM
    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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    Barbara Morris
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    #RPG


  • 2.  RE: Upcoming 7.4 and 7.5 RPG enhancements are announced today

    Posted Thu December 01, 2022 04:56 PM
    The RPG enhancements with PTFs for 7.4 and 7.5 are available today.

    See https://ibm.biz/rpg_cafe#announcement

    7.4:
    ILE RPG Runtime: 5770SS1 SI81729
    ILE RPG Compiler, TGTRLS(*CURRENT): 5770WDS SI81749

    7.5:
    ILE RPG Runtime: 5770SS1 SI81740
    ILE RPG Compiler, TGTRLS(*CURRENT): 5770WDS SI81801
    ILE RPG Compiler, TGTRLS(V7R4M0): 5770WDS SI81819

    Warning: The runtime PTF is needed on any system where a program is run that uses the charcount-natural support.

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    Barbara Morris
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    Original Message


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