Topic
What’s New in RPG for 7.4
Description
What’s new in RPG for 7.4

Speaker: Barbara Morris – IBM Toronto Lab

Find out about what’s new in 7.4 for RPG including several items that were already available through PTFs for earlier releases.

The most exciting enhancement is variable-dimension arrays, including a type of array that automatically grows as you assign new element

Other enhancements:
– DIM(*CTDATA) let’s you soft-code the dimension of an array with compile-time data
– The SAMEPOS ikeyword lets you define an array over repeating subfields in an externally-described data structure
– Two new subfields for the PSDS
– DATA-INTO opcode – similar to XML-INTO, except that it works with any type of structured data, including JSON
– ON-EXIT opcode makes it
– And more
Time
May 20, 2020 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)