IBM AS/400 manual What, s New This, Release?

What

's New This

Release?

The

major

enhancements

to

RPG

IV

since V4R2 are the support for

RPG

modules

safely

in

a

threaded

environment,

the new 3-digit and

2

and

unsigned

integer

data

types,

and

support

for

a

new

Universal

Ch

Version 2 (UCS-2)

data

type

and

for

conversion

between

UCS-2

fields

or single-byte character fields.

The

following

list

describes

these

enhancements:

¹

Support

for

calling ILE RPG procedures from

a

threaded

application,

Domino

or

Java.

–

The

new control specification keyword THREAD(*SERIALIZE) identifies

modules that are enabled to run in a multithreaded environment.

procedures

in

the

module

is

serialized.

¹

Support

for

new 1-byte and 8-byte integer data types: 3I and 2

integer,

and

3U

and

20U

unsigned

integer

–

These new integer data types provide

you

with

a

greater

ra

values

and

can

also

improve

performance

of

integer

computations,

full

advantage

of

the

64-bit

AS/400

RISC

processor.

–

The

new 3U type allows you

to more easily communicate with I

dures

that have single-byte

character

(char)

return types

and

passed

by

value.

–

The

new INTPREC

control

specification

keyword

allows

you

to

spec

20-digit precision for intermediate values of integer and unsign

arithmetic

operations

in

expressions.

–

Built-in

functions

%DIV

and

%REM

have

been

added

to

support

int

division

and

remainder

operations.

¹

Support

for

new

Universal

Character Set

Version

2

(UCS-2)

or

Unico

type

–

The

UCS-2 (Unicode) character set can encode the characters

written

languages.

The

field

is

a

character

field

whose

char

bytes

long.

–

By

adding support for

Unicode,

a

single

application

can

now

b

for

a

multinational

corporation,

minimizing

the

necessity

to

perfo

page

conversion.

The

use of

Unicode

permits

the

processing

of

in

multiple

scripts

without

loss

of

integrity.

–

Support for conversions between UCS-2 fields and graphic or sin

character

fields

using

the

MOVE and MOVEL operations, and

the

%UCS2

and

%GRAPH

built-in

functions.

–

Support

for conversions between UCS-2 fields

or

graphic

fields

ferent

Coded

Character

Set

Identifiers

(CCSIDs)

using

the EVAL,

and MOVEL operations, and the

new

%UCS2

built-in

function.

Other

enhancements

have

been

made

to

this

release

as

well.

These

¹

New

parameters for the OPTION control specification

keyword and

on

create

commands:

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